Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla

1989 · MS-DOS · Gil Williamson

Released May 19, 1994 Platform DOS Genre Adventure Perspective Text-based / spreadsheet Gameplay Interactive fiction / text adventure Interface Text parser Setting Fantasy, Medieval Narrative Comedy Description Sir Ramic Hobbs and the High Level Gorilla is a medieval fantasy comedy text adventure game about the escapades of an inept knight, named Sir Ramic Hobbs. Unusually for a text adventure, the game's narrator is a third-person character in the story: Wizard Prang, who guides Sir Ramic in his quest and comments on proceedings. The story begins as you wake up disoriented in a cave and discover that, the night before, you drunkenly signed up on a quest to free a captured princess. There was a ransom you were supposed to bring, but as you wake up and look around, there is no sign of it. You also soon discover that this cave that you ended up in is home to an angry-looking bear... From Mobygames.com. Original Entry