Nostalgia brain freeze.

January 1, 2013 2:54 PM

I'm trying to find the name of a computer game I played when I was very young. Circa 1986-7 ish. Details inside.

The things I think I remember correctly about the game:

it was text based
i think one of the meta-goals was to assemble a mirror
the start of the game found the player in a prison cell. a command would move the bed aside to reveal a hole you could escape through.

My sister thinks it was called Covenant, but my google-fu is failing.

posted by lazaruslong to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

Best answer: I googled "text game 'move bed'" and came up with this walkthrough for The Coveted Mirror.
posted by aparrish at 3:00 PM on January 1, 2013 [1 favorite]

Could it be The Prisoner? It would have been an old game by the time you played it. There was a lot of text.
posted by zippy at 3:00 PM on January 1, 2013

Response by poster: aparrish: "I googled "text game 'move bed'" and came up with this walkthrough for The Coveted Mirror ."

DING DING DING omg thank you
posted by lazaruslong at 3:01 PM on January 1, 2013

Response by poster: I think it was having the false lead Covenant that was screwing me up. Apparently there was a Halo game with that name too and even stripping out some key terms still gave me polluted results. Thank you so much for looking y'all!
posted by lazaruslong at 3:12 PM on January 1, 2013

Response by poster: Although I didn't play it in color!
posted by lazaruslong at 3:00 PM on January 12, 2013