8 /10 1 Votes
3.4/5 Abandonware DOS Mode(s) Single-player Developer Magnetic Scrolls Genre Interactive fiction | 4.7/5 My Abandonware Release date(s) 1988 Initial release date 1988 Designer Magnetic Scrolls | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms Commodore 64, Atari ST, AmigaOS, Amstrad CPC Publishers Telecomsoft, Rainbird Software Similar Magnetic Scrolls games, Interactive fiction games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Corruption is a text adventure game by Magnetic Scrolls released in 1988. In this game, a successful stockbroker suddenly finds himself embroiled in a world of crime and danger.
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Gameplay
The game is a standard text adventure with static graphics in all versions but the Apple II and Spectrum +3 ones. It focuses primarily on character interaction instead of object interaction. The Amiga version has a "speech mode", though Computer Gaming World noted it only as a novelty.
Reviews
"This adventure is set in the modern day world of high finance. Your partner has framed you and you must prove your innocence... CORRUPTION is different from normal adventures as it depends more on the gathering and correlating of information than puzzle solving. In time, though you'll be able to find out the answers to all the questions except one - why can't I use the loo?"
"All in all, I enjoyed CORRUPTION far more than I thought I would ... but not quite as much as the previous Magnetic Scrolls games."
Computer Gaming World in 1989 praised the game's menu features, such as the ability to reveal exits. Charles Ardai in 1992 wrote in the magazine that Corruption was "the one clear winner" in the Magnetic Scrolls Collection. While criticizing the short length of gameplay, he stated that "a game this powerful deserves the widest possible audience".
The game was voted Best 8-bit Adventure Game of the Year at the Golden Joystick Awards.