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1991 Allan Phillips Platforms: ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and Atari ST Comic Relief is a now-annual charity fundraiser featuring live TV events and, of course, Red Nose Day. Back in the early Nineties it was biannual, and 1991 was Comic Relief year. Intro screen for The Hospital, which was intended as a location for Comic Relief Adventure. At this time, there was a thriving independent adventure scene. Thanks to adventure coding packages such as The Quill, PAWS and Graphic Adventure Creator, home storytellers could produce their own interactive fiction games which were then sold through mail order. Many leading video games magazines of the day had adventure sections which covered the indy scene, along with fanzines such as Adventure Probe. It was to Adventure Probe that adventurer Allan Phillips wrote in March 1991 with an idea for a Comic Relief Adventure game. The idea was simple. The game would be co-written by readers of Adventure Probe, with each contributor writing a…

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