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The Snow Queen
Developer(s)St. Bride's School
Publisher(s)Mosaic Publishing
Designer(s)Marianne Scarlett
Priscilla Langridge[1]
EngineThe Quill
Platform(s)Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum
Release1985
Genre(s)Text adventure game
Mode(s)Single-player

The Snow Queen is a text adventure game created by Irish developer St. Bride's School and published by Mosaic Publishing for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1985. It is based on the 1844 fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen.[2]

Gameplay

Plot

Reception

The Snow Queen was generally moderately well received, including review scores of 60% from Computer Gamer,[3] 21/30 from Computer & Video Games,[4] 7/10 from Crash,[5] four out of five stars from Sinclair User,[6] 5/10 and 7/10 from Your Sinclair,[7][8] and 60% from Zzap!64.[9]

References

  1. ^ John Minson. "CRASH 26 - St Brides". crashonline.org.uk.
  2. ^ "Sinclair User 44 - Adventure". f9.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012.
  3. ^ "Computer Gamer - Issue 09 (1985-12)(Argus Press)(GB)". archive.org.
  4. ^ "Computer and Videogames Magazine Issue 052". archive.org.
  5. ^ "Crash - No. 23 (1985-12)(Newsfield)(GB)". archive.org.
  6. ^ "Sinclair User Magazine Issue 052". archive.org.
  7. ^ "Sinclair ZX Spectrum Reviews". zxspectrumreviews.co.uk.
  8. ^ "Sinclair ZX Spectrum Reviews". zxspectrumreviews.co.uk.
  9. ^ "gamebase64.com - The Gamebase Collection". gamebase64.com.

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