A Harvesting Moon

Adventure Game: Text/Illustrated · ZX-Spectrum 48K · 1 players · English

8th Day Software · 1985

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Originally released as text-only adventure, relaunched later as illustrated text adventure.

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HarvestingMoonA(ZenobiSoftware).mgt.zipDisk image English33 KB
harvestingmoon.rzxRZX playback file
HarvestingMoonA.tzx.zipTape image English31 KB
HarvestingMoonA.tap.zipTape image English34 KB
HarvestingMoonA(G.I.Games).tzx.zipTape image English29 KB
HarvestingMoonA.tzx.zipTape image English31 KB
HarvestingMoonA(2).tzx.zipTape image English6 KB

Files and rights

Distribution permission is on record, granted to another archive rather than to this one. Screens and pictures are copied here; everything else links to the archive that holds it.

Allowed8th Day Software → WorldOfSpectrum
AllowedG.I. Games → WorldOfSpectrum
AllowedZenobi Software → WorldOfSpectrum
AllowedZenobi Software → Spectrum ComputingDistribution allowed, provided it's made quite clear that the games may only be downloaded for personal usage, they are not to be offered to any third parties (freely or not), and they cannot be included on any commercial enterprise

Credits

Mike Whitecredited
Martin Renniecredited

Scores

In the magazines

The Games Machine #41988 · Overall53%

Elsewhere on the web

WorldOfSpectrum 13 votes7.92

In the magazines 8

The Games Machine #4Mar 1988 · p.7153%53%

The Games Machine

Overall 53%

Rob Steel 53%

Spectrum Cassette: £2.99 Culture can be a dangerous thing. In A Harvesting Moon the player and his parents are visiting Moreton Manor, an old country house situated in spacious grounds amid rolling woodlands, when an enthusiastic warden closes a portcullis too quickly and cuts you off from your family. Your task is to explore the house, find a way back to Mom and Dad and stop a strange psychic disturbance spreading. The first problem with A Harvesting Moon is that many objects in it can't be EXAMINEd. Things placed around the game suggest they should be looked at more closely - the pavilion in the middle of the maze, the litter bins and the scarecrow, for example - but no extra information is given (except that the scarecrow is made of straw) after an EXAMINE attempt. This means a lot of guesswork on the player's part as he tries to figure out what the writer wants him to do with these elements, and because the parser is so small it's no fun. The graphics are typical 'add nothing to the game' material, and the whole adventure is rather on the silly side. Life without my fictitious parents soon took precedence over finding them again as the screen went blank. On the reverse side of the cassette is a very old adventure called Faerie. This is full of magic, mystery and frustration and deserves to be given away free...

A Harvesting Moon + Faerie carries this game and has 3 references of its own.

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