Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt is a video game in the simulation genre developed by Macsen Software and published by Macsen Software originally released in 1985. It is currently playable on Commodore 64, BBC Micro, Electron, ZX Spectrum.

Treasure Hunt is a game based on a popular British television series from the 1980s. In the show, contestants were given cryptic clues that led from one location to another. They had to decipher these clues and direct a real-life TV presenter and her camera crew to those locations in a helicopter.

The game follows the same pattern. It comes with a 60+ page book containing extracts from Ernest Benn's 'Blue Book' guides to England, Scotland and Wales, although the instructions say that a large-scale map would also be useful.The game consists of four huntsGreater LondonSouth DevonAngleseyThe Fife peninsulaThe best way to describe the game is to follow one of the clues. The third hunt is based in and around Anglesey, an island off the northwest coast of Wales.
The first clue is: 'Pass the nobleman sideways to the place of the choppy water to replace the missing limb'.
The player has 10 seconds to read the clue and then the game begins. Reading the book, the player will discover that to the west of the starting point is the Anglesey Column, dedicated to the Marquess of Anglesey, who lost a leg at Waterloo, hence lop-sided, and a little further away is Llanfair P. G., known to have one of the longest place names in the world and which, translated, refers to a swift whirlpool, hence churning water. Both are indicators of the first destination. The helicopter on the ground next to the Menai Bridge. The player instructs the pilot to 'take off' and then writes down the name of the geographical feature of the city he thinks the runway refers to. After a while, the helicopter lands and the player is given the next runway, or is told 'no runway here'.

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