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Eamon

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Eamon

Mar 31, 1980

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2.40 average rating based on 5 ratings

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Eamon, sometimes known by the longer title The Wonderful World of Eamon, is a role-playing adventure game created by Donald Brown and released for the Apple II in 1980. The game is a text adventure similar to other early titles like Adventure (1976) or Zork (1980) and to later text-based Multi-user dungeons (MUDs), though with many role-playing elements not available in other interactive fiction. Eamon software is non-commercial and is freely available in the public domain.
Developers
Donald Brown
Publishers
Donald Brown
Platforms
Apple II, DOS
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Fantasy
Release Dates
Q1 1980 (Worldwide)
Apple II
Q1 1997 (Worldwide)
DOS
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User Stats
21
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Playing
7
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How Long Is Eamon?
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b_n
b_n gave Nov 20, 2014
b_n gave Nov 20, 2014
b_n's review of Eamon

1001 Games - #13

Pros: successful RPG element builds on character from quest to quest, high number of available adventures

Cons: variable quality between adventures, simple verb-noun parser hinders puzzle solving aspect

Recommendation: Your opinion of Eamon is likely linked to your opinion of text-based adventure games. The most unique aspect is that Eamon is freely distributed software that many members of the community have added upon. The basic game and several added adventures are available online.

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scoopings
scoopings updated their status Jan 5, 2024
scoopings updated their status Jan 5, 2024

Hm, this is entered in as 1987. Donald Brown made Eamon both as an adventure and as a non-commercial game creation software. I'm not sure if some of the ratings/reviews here are for one of the many later games created on it, several of which were released in 1987. It would be a daunting task to add all 279 documented Eamon adventures, plus I feel like my love of early style text adventures is waning, so I will leave that task to someone else ha. Instead I'll just clean this one up and fix up SwordThrust (the commercial version by Brown released in 1981)

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