Il vagabondo del tempo [ITA], Italian educational / game

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Sun May 17, 2009 6:16 am

Hello everybody, here's another previously unpublished gem from the Italian scene of the mid-eighties: "Il vagabondo del tempo" (The Time Wanderer), a collection of several simple games, loosely kept together by a plot revealed through multiple text screens.

You can download the zipped disk and and tap versions HERE. As usual, being a multi-load tape, I suggest to try the tap first. For the majority who can't understand Italian, try the single games in the disk image.

HERE is the pdf file of the 4-pages booklet which came with the tape.

To give you a glimpse of what we're talking about, here are four screenshots:

I should say, I felt a bit disappointed in discovering that it was not the text adventure I expected when I bought it in Ebay

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nbla000 · Post by **nbla000** » Mon May 18, 2009 6:01 am

Yes, you are right, i thought it was a text adventure too

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon May 18, 2009 7:06 am

So no publisher then? Any idea of a year (for GB20)?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon May 18, 2009 8:04 am

Yes Mayhem, it's Beatrice d'Este Edizioni 1985 (see also the first screenshot). Part of a larger edutainment collection, "conoscere il computer direttamente dal computer" (getting to know computers directly from computers).

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:52 am

Oh right, I thought Beatrice d'Este was the programmer's name... so no programmer details then?

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:16 am

Sorry, I mistyped the year: 1984 is the year, Beatrice d'Este - named after a Renaissance lady (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_d'Este) - was the Editor, ENDA Srl the package makers, but no info about the author(s) in the package or booklet.

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:49 am

At least the loader says it is made by Franco Fabbri.

The game Le Mosche says "Mosquitos" in the first REM statement, and is otherwise full of REMarks in English so I would believe it came from elsewhere.

The other listings are pretty free of REM statements so hard to tell anything about it.

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Mon May 18, 2009 10:51 am

Geez, another pirate collection, and pretty ugly stuff too...

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Mon May 18, 2009 12:41 pm

It doesn't have to be pirated, BdE might have purchased the rights to whatever content they didn't produce themselves. Or perhaps the Mosquitos game was written by an Italian who was very proud that he spoke English.