Entry Summary
ID6993
TitleSnowball
MachineZX-Spectrum 48K
LanguageEnglish
GenreAdventure Game: Text-Only
Max Players1
Available TypeA
Without Load ScreenNo
Without InlayNo
Downloads
TypeLinkSizeMD5FlagsDetailsComments
Tape image/pub/sinclair/games/s/Snowball.tzx.zip21,645-
NoneOriginal release (O)
Tape image/pub/sinclair/games/s/Snowball.tap.zip21,359-
Undetermined
Loading screen/pub/sinclair/screens/load/s/scr/Snowball.scr6,912-
Running screen/pub/sinclair/screens/in-game/s/Snowball.gif2,546-
Instructions/pub/sinclair/games-info/s/Snowball.txt19,743-
?/pub/sinclair/games-extras/Snowball_CoverArt.jpg332,529-
Cover art
RZX playback filehttps://archive.org/download/rzxarchive/snowball.rzx--
Recorded by Hippy Smith
Instructions/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0006993/Snowball(EN).pdf1,119,45953d0f534473f677b8fc27ee75b4d2f2f
None
Media scan/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0006993/Snowball_Media.jpg98,381d1c5dedb8be5a13953abc45b603e67e8
None
Media scan/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0006993/Snowball_Media_2.jpg160,49494e3ad01a1e9034bb6815e3ce7171ff8
None
Inlay - Front/zxdb/sinclair/entries/0006993/Snowball.jpg1,253,95298d4388026ed159cc82153afd9973c79
NoneClamshell case (big)
Releases
Release #YearDownloads
#0198310
#119841
Origins
TypeTitlePublicationIssueDate
standaloneSnowballLevel 9 Computing Ltd-1983
Relations
No relations recorded
Tags / Members
TagTypeCategoryMember SeqLinks
Crash Readers Awards 1984Annual AwardsBest Text-Only Adventure1
LinkOther awards: 1st in category "Best Programmer" - Stephen Crow 2nd in category "Best Programmer" - Keith Burkhill 3rd in category "Best Programmer" - Jonathan Smith 4th in category "Best Programmer" - David Jones 5th in category "Best Programmer" - Steve Turner 1st in category "Best Software House" - Elite Systems Ltd 2nd in category "Best Software House" - Ocean Software Ltd 3rd in category "Best Software House" - Hewson Consultants Ltd 4th in category "Best Software House" - Imagine Software Ltd 5th in category "Best Software House" - Gargoyle Games
Silicon Dreams TrilogySeries1
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Ports
TitlePlatformOfficialLink
-Amstrad CPCYesLink
-BBC MicroYesLink
-Commodore 64YesLink
-Commodore Plus/4NoLink
-MSXYesLink
Remakes
No remakes recorded
Scores
WebsiteScoreVotes
WorldOfSpectrum8.3329
Notes
TypeText
CreditsTim Noyce and Pete Sherwood are the artists for the original publication.
RemarksThe game is advertised as having more than 7.000 locations. In reality there are about 200 unique locations and the rest is part of a maze with exact locations, changing only the color.
Aliases
No aliases
Licenses
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Files
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