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The Phantom's Revenge

A simple crawl where you have to explore a strange old, mostly abandoned and rumouredly haunted prison to find some presumably fabulous treasure. As with the other Temple Software games, this is a simple text…

31 December 1982

The Phantom's Revenge is an adventure developed by Temple Software, released 31 December 1982 on DOS.

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What The Phantom's Revenge is

The Phantom's Revenge is an adventure game developed by Temple Software and released in 1982. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A simple crawl where you have to explore a strange old, mostly abandoned and rumouredly haunted prison to find some presumably fabulous treasure. As with the other Temple Software games, this is a simple text adventure, with most puzzles simply consisting of giving the right item to the right person. You can enter simple commands to navigate through the world, and you can save and restore the current game.
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

The Phantom's Revenge launched on 31 December 1982, within three weeks of Trashman, King Kong and Xevious.

Released around the same time: Trashman, King Kong, Xevious.

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When did The Phantom's Revenge come out?
The Phantom's Revenge was released on 31 December 1982 for DOS.

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