The Crack of Doom
The Crack of Doom is the last game in Melbourne House's series of adventure games based on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The gameplay combines a text-based adventure with illustrations from the main character's…
The Crack of Doom is an adventure developed by Beam Software Pty., Ltd., released 31 December 1989 on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.
What The Crack of Doom is
The Crack of Doom is an adventure game developed by Beam Software Pty., Ltd. and released in 1989. It was published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.. It is available on Apple II, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The game follows the character Sam Gamgee as he embarks on a mission to save his master, Frodo, and destroy the Ring of Power in Mount Doom. Set in the fantasy realm of Middle Earth, players navigate through various iconic locations such as Gorgoroth, Cirith Ungol, and Mount Doom.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Lord of the Rings series
The Crack of Doom is the fifth of 69 entries we hold in the The Lord of the Rings series. It arrived 2 years after Shadows of Mordor: Game two of Lord of the Rings. The next entry was J.R.R. Tolkien's War in Middle Earth in 1989.
What it launched against
The Crack of Doom launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.
Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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