Magnetic Scrolls

Magnetic Scrolls was a British computer game developer during the mid 1980s and early 1990s. It was one of two largest interactive fiction game makers of the 1980s. Their primary focus was the development of cutting edge text adventure games (also known as interactive fiction) on a variety of 8-bit and 16-bit home computer platforms. Today there is an Magnetic Interpreter for different operating systems to play the games on modern computers. Form... more
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