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Four Minutes to Midnight

Four Minutes to Midnight is a post-apocalyptic text adventure with a twist. The game takes place in the United States in the not so distant future and the premise is that there has been an outbreak of a deadly…

31 December 1985

Four Minutes to Midnight is an adventure developed by 8th Day Software, released 31 December 1985 on ZX Spectrum.

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What Four Minutes to Midnight is

Four Minutes to Midnight is an adventure game developed by 8th Day Software and released in 1985. It is available on ZX Spectrum only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Four Minutes to Midnight is a post-apocalyptic text adventure with a twist. The game takes place in the United States in the not so distant future and the premise is that there has been an outbreak of a deadly bacteria strain. The twist is that the player can in a true RPG fashion, gather a party of adventurers in an otherwise classic text adventure to help along with the quest at hand. Different members can have different skills that help with the problems the player encounters. The objective is to lead your party of five survivors across the devastated United States to sanctuary.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Four Minutes to Midnight launched on 31 December 1985, within three weeks of Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter and Mercenary.

Released around the same time: Bomberman, Summer Games II, Highway Encounter, Mercenary.

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When did Four Minutes to Midnight come out?
Four Minutes to Midnight was released on 31 December 1985 for ZX Spectrum.

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