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"Find The Stone Wishbringer And Defeat The Evil One"

Introduction: Released back in the 80's, by Infocom, Wishbringer was one of the first computer games that I played for the PC. In this game you play the role of a mailman who has to deliver a package to "Ye Old Magik Shop", find the Wishbringer Stone, and defeat the Evil One.

Graphics: There are no graphics in this game. This game, like most Infocom games, is entirely text.

Sound: There is no music in this game and the only sound it the game is a little blip the computer makes whenever you score.

Story: 4/10 The story in Wishbringer is very basic. As stated above, the first half of the game you must deliver a package and the other half you spend finding the Wishbringer Stone and destroying the Evil One. The characters in the game are your stereotypical videogame characters. You have a mean boss, lazy cop, and mysterious magik shop owner among others. The story has no twists or surprises and after you beat the game it is ultimately forgettable.

Gameplay: 9/10 Gameplay is excellent. You control your character entirely through typing commands into the keyboard and the game understands a wide range of commands. For example, to go North, you can type N, North or Go North. Sometimes you will enter a command and the game will not understand what you are trying to do, but if you limit your commands to one or two word phrases, you shouldn't have many problems.

Replayability: 2/10 Once you beat the game there really is not much reason to go though it again. You can try to beat the game without using any wishes but there really isn't much reason to do so as it does not change the story at all and the puzzles are in most cases just as easy to solve without using wishes as they are by using wishes.

Final: 6/10 Fifteen years ago I couldn't stop playing this game until I had beaten it, but once I beat it I never saw any reason to play it again.