To get home you’ll need to explore and find a way to make it home without dying! If you want to help the villagers by helping them, the best thing to do is just click on the ‘I’m a villager’ button on the top right of the screen, then the villagers can help you to your right or left. You can do this by just tapping the ‘Trade’ button on the bottom of the screen. When you trade with them you can trade either weapons, tools, or crafting items. The villager will then have the ability to trade items with you, as well as help you. You may meet a villager who can tell you of anything, be it village rumors, or even lead you to an item or craftable item you can use. You’ll need to explore to find out what lies where, and who lives where.
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So it’s not usually worthwhile emailing me asking questions about them! :) Fortunately other people on the net have worked out the full solutions if you’re desperate.Each area of the world is unique and full of hidden chests, you’ll need to gather and craft various items and weapons to get your way home. You must remember that I wrote these games a very long time ago, and I don’t really remember the solutions. I hope you get as much fun from playing the games as I did writing them all those years ago. I have placed both in the public domain – so feel free to play them as much as you like, and copy them here, there and everywhere. I no longer sell or support Humbug or Jacaranda Jim.
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In approximately December 1990/January 1991 Humbug was the star game on PC Plus’s cover disk, and this was most people’s first encounter with the game.Īs with Jacaranda Jim, Humbug proved very popular and I still get the occasional fan letter today. I intentionally set out to write a more professional, entertaining and deeper game than Jacaranda Jim – and as a result I am much prouder in Humbug than JJ (which is something of an embarrassment). (GIF format, 80k)įollowing the success of Jacaranda Jim, I unleashed Humbug on an unsuspecting world in about 1990 whilst studying computing in Bristol, UK. You have been warned.Ī complete map, showing all the locations in Humbug.
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It’s much more fun to try and work out how to complete Humbug on your own. People used to play text adventure games on the earlier mainframe computers long before home. candy) amongst other thingsĪ step-by-step complete solution for Humbug.īEWARE! This file can seriously damage your enjoyment of the game. Text adventure is one of the oldest genre of computer games. So, here’s a quick cheatsheet translating some of the troublesome English words into American: Some non-British players of my games have struggled to understand some of the language used within them. When you run HUMBUG50.EXE it will decompress the various parts of Humbug onto your hard drive.
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I have made this version of Humbug available as a self-extracting ZIP file. In May 1997 I placed Humbug in the public domain – and this new free version comes complete with all the goodies. Originally “Humbug” was a shareware game, which required players to register to get access to maps and online hints. Some game players have reported having good results by using free DOS emulators like vDos, DOSBox or Boxer. NOTE: If you have a modern version of Windows, it may not support 16-bit DOS programs.
HUMBUG Version 5.0, fully-working including online hints.ĭownload HUMBUG50.EXE – Requires DOS. Thanks Joe! And be sure to check out other reviews of Humbug if you’re interested.įree download of Humbug text adventure game Make sure to read this incredibly detailed review of Humbug written in December 2018 by Joe Pranevich for the Adventure Gamer blog. It is crowded with wit and challenging puzzles… The game achieves the optimum balance of challenge, charm, silliness and sophistication…”
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Strategy Plus Magazine said: “Humbug is the most entertaining text adventure that I have played since Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Humbug is a major advance on Jacaranda Jim, featuring far more locations and over 200 objects. What would you do with a trombone, a terrapin and half a pound of lard? Yes, quite.Īll this, and more, is revealed in Humbug.What doesn’t Kevin the clockwork shark like about your haircut?.Why does the octopus insist on performing the ancient ritual of Wubble-A-Gloop with you?.Why has Grandad hidden a time machine in the cellar?.Why is Jasper the dentist so desperate that Grandad should sell the manor?.You, Sidney Widdershins, are sent to your Grandad’s for the school holidays. Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game. (Play Humbug via your browser, courtesy of the Internet Archive) Free MS-DOS text adventure game by Graham Cluley
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