
If you like suspense, you'll love seeking out and destroying evil in this classic tale'.


Learn about all the evil places in this spooky adventure in full high-resolution detail. The plot of The Black Sanctum: 'Confront the forces of black magic as you journey through an ancient 18th century monastery. Although the graphics are quite good for the time, the parser is rather primitive: only simple verb+noun constructions, such as GET HAT, are understood, and some verbs that are common in IF games, such as SEARCH, are not always recognized.įortunately, the games compensate for the primitive parser with a well-written plot, amusing characters, and some clever puzzles.

In the mid-1980s, a small company called Mark Data Products released 6 parser-based adventure games, similar to early Polarware and Scott Adams titles.Īlthough the games are reasonably successful on Tandy's CoCo computer, the IBM PC versions did not achieve the same level of success.
