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One of the harder things to ascertain when investigating a potential GTW is sorting out those games that are simply 'Missing in Action' from the genuine 'Games That Weren't'.
Wizard's Dominion is one such game. A Dungeons & Dragon's game from the early 1980s it was advertised as being released on the TI 99/4A and the C64, however today the only version that can be found online is the TI 99/4A version. The C64 version has dropped off the map entirely.
If the programmer is the same as the TI version, it was written by Thomas D. Johnson and boasts the usual dungeon crawl fare of swords, ogres, magic and 'thousands of caves'.
The relative prevalence of the TI version online, where you can download two versions of the manual and buy the game on ebay (at a pretty high price) compared to the absolute absence of any reference to a C64 version suggests the game probably ended up unreleased, if it was completed at all.
Sadly with no evidence of the game online at all it's almost certainly impossible for us to track down the game unless someone connected with it sees this article and gets in touch.
Barring that unlikely possibility, the mystery of Wizard's Dominion on the C64 will never be solved.
Alex Ross.
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source credits - Robinson Mason) |
