Treasury of Zan box art

Treasury of Zan

MS-DOS · 1989 · WOR

Also known as: Treasury Of Zan

R&R Software R&R Software Adventure

Publisher: R&R Software · Developer: R&R Software · Genre: Adventure

Treasury of Zan is a very obscure shareware graphical text adventure sold via mail order in 1989. The game looks and plays similar to contemporary games from Magnetic Scroll and Level 9: graphics take up the top three quarters of the screen, and the text description and parser occupy the bottom one quarter. The plot is a cliche variant of The Wizard of Oz, except this time you are carried into another world not by a tornado, but by a suspicious looking wizard who picks you up when your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. It places much more emphasis on puzzles than the storyline or characters, judging from minimal room and object descriptions. Unfortunately, the puzzles are a far cry from the caliber of difficult-but-logical puzzles found in Infocom and Magnetic Scroll games. The game gets much better after the initial start-the-car sequence. It is still unforgiving and sparsely described, but at least the puzzles are much more logical, and the game much more open-ended.

Known dumps

CRC32MD5SizeRegionSource
B1C96E0C DC48313AD1FE… 541,940 — exodos

Artwork & screenshots

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