Discworld
Discworld is a game released for PC (subsequently Mac, and Playstation) by Teeny Weeny / Perfect 10 studios in 1995. The game was released both on floppy disk and CD-Rom. The latter featured a commentary team created of many veterans of famous Brit-Coms. This included Monty Python's Eric Idle, Radio 4's (later to be more famous) Rob Brydon, ex- Doctor Who John Pertwee, 70s pop singer Kate Robbins, and Blackadder star Tony Robinson. The game is a riff on the Discworld title 'Guards, Guards', however many elements of the text have been shifted, not least the inclusion of Rincewind as protagonist.
The game featured puzzles which were considered far too difficult and obtuse for gamers of the time, but the game itself has had a lasting legacy, now being accepted into such emulators as SCUMMVM.
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DeveloperTeeny Weeny Games, Perfect Entertainment, Perfect 10 Productions
PublisherPsygnosis, Dro Soft, Psygnosis Limited, Media Entertainment
ReleasedMarch 17, 1995
StatusReleased
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Highly Recommended83/100
About This Game
A suitably nasty secret order has conjured up a dragon and is loosing it to wreak havoc on the city — but saving the day doesn't fall to Carrot and company. It falls to Rincewind, the spectacularly inept wizard. Taking control of him, the player sets out to spare the city from destruction on a journey that runs from Ankh-Morpork to the edge of the Disc and beyond. Along the way the game folds in plenty of characters from non-Rincewind Discworld tales, among them Nanny Ogg, the Ankh-Morpork guards, Cut-me-own-throat Dibbler, Trolls, the Patrician, and Death.