Escape from Pulsar 7

Escape from Pulsar 7 is the fourth entry in Brian Howarth’s Mysterious Adventure series of illustrated text adventures. Influenced by the film Alien, the game places you alone aboard a giant spaceship after a mutated zoo specimen kills the rest of the crew.

Your objective is to explore the crew’s bunks, find useful tools, and escape the ship in a life pod before the creature claims you as its next meal. The adventure includes several maze sections and follows a largely linear progression because only useful items can be collected.

Gameplay

• Science-fiction setting aboard a giant spaceship
• Basic two-word parser with a small vocabulary
• Brief descriptions and item-focused exploration
• Several maze sections

The game uses the Scott Adams adventure engine and was released in 1982 for systems including the Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 16, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Commodore Plus/4, Dragon 32/64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and ZX Spectrum.