The Lurking Horror is an adventure developed by Infocom, released 6 May 1987 on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II and Atari 8-bit.
What The Lurking Horror is
The Lurking Horror is an adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1987. It is available on Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Lurking Horror is an interactive fiction game released by Infocom in 1987. The game was written by Dave Lebling and inspired by the horror fiction writings of H. P. Lovecraft (including his Cthulhu Mythos). Like most of Infocom's games, it was released for several platforms simultaneously thanks to the Z-machine. The original release included versions for DOS, the Apple II, Atari ST, Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64. Later, it was ported to the Amiga with the addition of sound effects, making it the first title with that feature. The effects would play at appropriate times in the game in an effort to intensify the horror atmosphere. This marked one of the few major additions to the…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Lurking Horror launched on 6 May 1987, within three weeks of The Great Giana Sisters and Sid Meier's Pirates!.
Released around the same time: The Great Giana Sisters, Sid Meier's Pirates!.
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When did The Lurking Horror come out?
The Lurking Horror was released on 6 May 1987 for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.
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