Murder on the Waterfront

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Murder on the Waterfront
System(s): SC-3000
Publisher: Dotsoft
Developer: Softgold
Genre: Adventure

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Murder on the Waterfront is a graphical text adventure game developed for the Commodore 64 by Australian company Softgold (formerly Gameworx Software), which specialised in multi-load text adventures written in BASIC. An SC-3000 version was planned[1], but not released.

Synopsis

Kidnapped!!!

The sweet young daughter of Edward Harrington Mountford III, Chairman of the Mountford Shipping Co. has been kidnapped.

A note demanding $500,000 ransom has been received. It has a Dead"D"Line of 12.00 midn ight for the ransom to be delivered to a deserted warehouse on the docks in 52nd street, or else young sweet Mary Mountford will be murdered.

It was signed by the Irish Gang, Infamous New York Gangsters known for their brutality. You, as Basil Bryon, have been engaged to rescue sweet Mary Mountford. If you are succesful, the ransom will be yours.

Now cleverly disguised as a meter reader, you head down 52nd Street towards the Waterfront. It's 8.32 pm....

— Commodore 64 Box backcover


Magazine articles

Main article: Murder on the Waterfront/Magazine articles.

References


Softgold Graphic Text Adventure Games for the Sega SC-3000
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