The Magnetic Scrolls Collection
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| Developer | Magnetic Scrolls |
| Publisher | Virgin Games, Inc. |
| Platforms | Acorn 32-bit, Amiga, Atari ST, DOS |
| Release | 1991 |
| Genre | Adventure |
The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a 1991 video game published by Virgin Games, Inc.
The Magnetic Scrolls Collection is a collection of three text adventure games, The Guild of Thieves, Corruption, and Fish!.[1] The game system for each game is based on windows.[2] Players are able to make moves using the options of moving icons, clicking on menus of key commands, or typing commands in.[3] The collection comes packaged with a fish chart for Fish!, a map for Guild of Thieves, and a calendar and audio cassette for Corruption.[1] The box includes four disks.[2]
The three games in this collection have been modified to use Magnetic Windows, the Windows interpreter previously used in Wonderland.[4][5] The games were originally text adventures, with still or minimally animated images of locations, and the collection adds windows and icons for elements such as mapping, inventory, and discovering items that can be manipulated.[6] The player can use the windows interface to arrange the game screen to suit their preference, and can play the games as pure text adventures or as graphic adventures.[1]