A dventure trail

Good tidings and joy to you all my fellow travellers, Welcome! to the Adventure Trail’s latest incarnation in this new and exciting quarterly edition of CRASH magazine. Colin Bell once more at your service, CRASH Dungeon Master and guide to the world of high ‘8-bit’ adventure.

With the Yuletide season firmly upon us I invite you all to come gather by my warm fire here underneath the hallowed halls of Castle CRASH as we roast some chestnuts and raise a glass to yet another great year of adventuring — no social distancing required here dear reader…

While it remains a crazy world out there and a tough time for many, I’m pleased to see that many of you have found solace in the world of Spectrum adventure which continues to grow and thrive at an impressive rate. With the ZX Spectrum

NEXT now sitting pride of place in many of your questing altars we’ve seen more new enhanced adventures being released along with a number of the classic 48K-128K variety. Indeed, it is an exciting time for adventure gaming on the Spectrum and I, like many of you, look forward to seeing what lies ahead in the new year.

Adventuron create a new text adventure in with vibrant location graphics.

There was also the option to develop the game for the ZX Spectrum NEXT and / or ZX Spectrum +3 which each of the entries did. Most notable were One Last Thing by Dee Cooke, Last Night in the Office by Quizlock and Rite of the Druid by Paul Weller of

Sunteam. We take a look at Rite of the Druid in this issue’s review section. You can play or download the games and check out the ‘Jam’ results here: https://itch.io/jam/nextadventure-jam

And now with our proceedings concluded let us put on our best fur armour, jump on our battle sleighs and turn to face the trail once more as we take a bold step forward onto this issue’s news and reviews.