Horror House (1983)

So far, out of the Falsoft contest adventures, I’ve played Polynesian Adventure, Search for the Ruby Chalice, and Escape from Sparta. I pointed out last time that these tend to be the only games published by the particular authors, although in the case of today’s author (Robert Mangum II) this isn’t true. He published two games, one that won in the first Falsoft contest and one that won in the second. Robert Mangum, a 15-year-old sophomore at Astronaut High School in Titusville, Fla., purchased his TRS-80 Color Computer when he was an eighth grader. His hobbies include reading, playing the stock market, and writing Color Computer games. He aspires to pursue the latter hobby as a career. As the “Astronaut” in the school name implies, Titusville is east of Orlando, close to Cape Canaveral and one of the US’s space launch sites. I’m unclear if the introductions to the various games given in the book are written by the author(s) themselves or by the magazine editors, although I suspect…