Scholastic's Microzine Series

[xgeek]

Aloha, first time poster, and new member of this lovely BBS.

I came across your emulator and played Oregon Trail for hours. So I started going through some of my grade school memories and would like to request the Scholastic Microzine series (My favorite was called 'Malice in Wonderland').

Just thought I'd throw it out there. Great work!

[billm]

I will have to check on the copyrights of that series before we can post them to the site.

Cheers

--billm--

[spidermurphy236]

I second the request for the MicroZine series!

Information about this series is so hard to come by... The only things I can find on-line are forum posts of other people asking questions about it. I've even contacted Scholastic, who sent a very terse reply: "Due to the age of that product it is no longer available."

I remember Escape from Antcatraz, and Malice in Wonderland, and there was another game that I'm pretty sure was from the MicroZine series but I can't remember what it was called... you were exploring a castle, and it may have involved King Arthur and Merlin.

Anything that could fill the gaps in my memory would be welcome!

[bossk]

I have a couple of these disks. Did you decide the legal status of these yet?

[amnesoid]

Ahh! Yes! My mother used to teach in the computer room at school in the mid-1980's, and I would hang out playing these games til 4PM waiting for her to close up shop. 'MicroAgent of the Bodyguard' (with Arby Sea), 'Mission: Mix Up' (the one where you mixed up chemicals), 'Malice In Wonderland', 'Escape from AntCatraz'.

And I definitely remember one that had something to due with castles and King Arthur and Merlin and all that. Is that the one that had "The Chartreuse Room"? I just bought a house and i am going to paint one of the rooms chartreuse, and it made me think of that game. I can't remember the title, but i'm pretty sure it was in the Microzine series.

Can someone with the disks make these into ROMs?? Illegally, if necessary!

[spidermurphy236]

oh wow - now that you mention "the chartreuse room", that sounds SO familiar. i tried asking about it on yahoo answers once, but didn't get any helpful information. this was the other stuff that i thought i remembered (which may be way off after 25 years, who knows):

you started outside by a drawbridge, and if you ever "died" in the game, you would wake up back outside here. The first room had a cobweb in the corner, and the text description mentioned it. There was a wine cellar where you had to pick up a bottle for some reason. There was a well where a sea monster or something would jump out and attack you. There was a banquet room where a ghost would get mad at you if you sat in the king's chair. There was a ghost of a jester, and I think there might have been a ghost of a guy with a falcon.

i've been haunted by this game for years - i would die a happy man if i could remember what it was called or see some screenshots of it.