8.6 /10 1 Votes
Initial release date 1985 Genre Interactive fiction | 4.3/5 My Abandonware Developer Telarium Mode Single-player video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms Commodore 64, Apple II, DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, MSX, AmigaOS Publishers Telarium, Audiogenic, Idealogic SA Similar Telarium games, Interactive fiction games | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perry mason the case of the mandarin murder for the apple ii
Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder is an interactive fiction computer game with graphics. The game was published by Telarium (formerly known as Trillium), a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1985.
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Description
The game is based on the popular TV series Perry Mason starring Raymond Burr, who played the fictional defense attorney of the same name created by Erle Stanley Gardner. The player must save client Laura Knapp from being convicted of the murder of her husband Victor.
Reception
Antic Amiga in 1985 called Perry Mason "a major breakthrough in interactive fiction." In 2014 historian Jimmy Maher wrote that it "doesn’t entirely work as game or as courtroom drama. Yet it’s nonetheless kind of fascinating for what it tries to do as well as for the way it tries to do it". He criticized the parser, but liked "the moments here and there [when] you really do feel like Perry Mason up there jabbing and feinting at the witness and playing it up for the jury"