During periods of excessive temperatures I often play some games that don't cause the CPU or GPU to output excessive amounts of heat - and in turn are less of a danger to cause either component to overheat either. Rather than replays I do try to pick out a few from my huge backlog that I'd have likely picked up for free or for peanuts somewhere - this is Summer Gaming
The Game tells the story of Bobbin Threadbare a magical wizard known as a weaver who is is left alone on the small island of Loom. Possessed of his magical musical instrument he discovers his ability to weave arcane spells by playing notes and so sets out on his adventure.
Gameplay was exceedingly simple and actually took me a while to figure out due to some 36 years of game control evolution since release. The is seemingly one of the first games where you have an object, and when you select something in the environment you 'use' the object on it. In this case your object is your instrument and when you play it a certain way it activates the selected environment. You use the instrument to play a "draft" a 4-note tune which casts a spell such as "invisibility", "terror" or simply "open", other than walking or talking pretty much every other action is a spell.
You learn new drafts and notes to play them as you progress and need to manually take note of the note sequence yourself. Interestingly the notes are randomised a little so they may be different on other playthroughs (this was also a form of copy protection for the game).
While the original game release on floppy disk, a 1992 version released on DC with a new music score featuring samples from the works of Tsiolkovsky and fully voiced dialog - naturally this is the version on digital platforms today.
Final Verdict: This is a short, non-violent and simple vintage game from a time where innovation was rampant. A must play for fans of adventure games, old DOS games, video-game historians, fans of LucasArts or just to play something different.
