Deed of the York (1983)

I wanted to knock down one more game from the Rainbow Book of Adventures contest (the first text adventure contest) before moving on to other things. There will be eight left to go (saved for some future time). Deed of the York is another case like Escape from Sparta where something went awry in the credits. Specifically, the opening title screen indicates a different original author than Chris Harland (as seen in the image above). So the game is actually by Dwight Logan, originally? (Oftentimes, the port author isn’t considered an “author” at all although changes can sometimes be major enough to warrant that title.) Further muddying the waters is the book’s biographical note: Chris Harland is a bilingual high school student in the “Great White North” [Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada]. Some of his interests include sports, money, computers and rock music. Chris wishes to thank Dwight Logan and Gerald Nunn, whose initiative and help respectively ensured the program’s creation. The…