Knightmare on Teletext - Recoveries!
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Yes, I was the first who made a mentioning of Knightmare on Teletext some time ago. I remember that Mr Bamboozle was 'taking a break' over the 1993 Christmas period.
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Hi, Neil. I thought of you yesterday upon learning that Sir Patrick Stewart once appeared in a film called Joby.
Thank you so much for letting us know about this. My first contact with Knightmare.com was an email exchange with Nic/Illusion about the Knightmare Teletext games. I knew there were skilled people doing recovery work but I didn't want to get my hopes up about the Knightmare adventures. This really is a dream come true. If you'd like to submit this news as an article to go on the website, please do. It'll reach a wider audience that way.
It's good to have confirmation that at least one of the adventures was written by Michael Cule a.k.a. Brother Mace.
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Now to try and play through these...
I don't know whether there are any pages missing and I'm only guessing at the order, but the quest seems to work pretty well if you try it like this:
Start at page 459
From page 459, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10A
From page 10A, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10B
From page 10B,
-- 'Bunwit' (red button) takes you to page 10C
-- 'Titbit' (green button) takes you to page 10C
-- 'Innuit' (yellow button) takes you to page 10F
-- 'Chuzzlewit' (blue button) takes you to page 10C
From page 10C, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10D
From page 10D, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 10F, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 11A
From page 11A,
-- 'Go in' (red button) takes you to page 11C
-- 'Keep moving' (green button) takes you to page 14B
From page 11B, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 11C,
-- 'The Sack' (red button) takes you to page 12A
-- 'Showshoes' (green button) takes you to page 11F
-- 'Fur Coat' (yellow button) takes you to page 11D
From page 11D,
-- 'The High Road' (red button) takes you to page 11E
-- 'The Low Road' (green button) takes you to page 11B
From page 11E, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 11F,
-- 'The High Road' (red button) takes you to page 12B
-- 'The Low Road' (green button) takes you to page 12C
From page 12A,
-- 'The High Road' (red button) takes you to page 12D
-- 'The Low Road' (green button) takes you to page 12E
From page 12B,
-- 'Run Away' (red button) takes you to page 12F
-- 'Fight the Bear' (green button) takes you to page 12F
From page 12C, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 13A
From page 12D, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 13A
From page 12E, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 12F, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 13A,
-- 'Turn Back' (red button) takes you to page 10D
-- 'Press on' (green button) takes you to page 13B
-- 'Cast the HEAT spell' (yellow button) takes you to page 13C
From page 13B, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 13D
From page 13C, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 13F
From page 13D,
-- 'Cast your Spell' (red button) takes you to page 14C
-- 'Run Away' (green button) takes you to page 14A
-- 'Attack' (yellow button) takes you to page 14A
From page 13F,
-- 'Cast your own Spell' (red button) takes you to page 13E
-- 'Run Away' (green button) takes you to page 14A
-- 'Attack' (yellow button) takes you to page 14A
From page 14A, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 14E
From page 14B,
-- 'All Fools' (red button) takes you to page 10E
-- 'Halloween' (green button) takes you to page 10E
-- 'Mid-Winter' (yellow button) takes you to page 10E
-- 'Thursday' (blue button) takes you to page 13A
From page 14C,
-- 'Sorceress' (red button) takes you to page 14D
-- 'Frozen Captive' (green button) takes you to page 15A
-- 'Ice Chandelier' (yellow button) takes you to page 14F
From page 14D, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 14E
From page 14E, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 14F, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 10E
From page 15A, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 15B
From page 15B, 'Next' (red button) takes you to page 15C
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cccccooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllll
that is awesome.......... >
you could make a knightmare dvd game like what they did with raven..................
.............just an idea
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Yes, I remember this from the time!
Really great to see it again.
I was such a fan of Bamboozle, but to have it replaced with Knightmare was a fantastic thing!
I miss Teletext...
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I'm still hoping that another Knightmare Teletext adventure will be recovered. In the meantime, for anyone who missed it, To The Ice Palace Of Aesandre was recreated as a playable adventure by Paul Kelly at http://www.castleteletext.com/pages/Page%20458.htm
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Three random pages from a different Knightmare Teletext adventure (January 1994) have been recovered:
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The Teletext Archive (which I know about thanks to Canadanne/Annie) has a recovered Channel 4 page from 25/12/88 promoting the Knightmare Teletext adventure that was to run from 26/12/88 to 2/1/89, based on the first (and back then only) Knightmare gamebook.
Searches of the archive for other relevant words (Treguard, Hordriss) appear to bring up various pages of the Knightmare adventures. However, when I click on them, I get Bamboozle pages instead.
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Teletext is being revived online.
https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/teletext-viewer/
Some of it is new, some of it old. I haven't found any of the old KM pages on it so far, but I'm keeping an eye on it.
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I'm still hoping that another Knightmare Teletext adventure will be recovered.
It's happened! There are now two restored (i.e. playable) Knightmare Teletext adventures online:
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To the Ice Palace of Aesandre
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Journey through the Lairsdale
You can play both on Andrew Nile's website here.
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I'm still hoping that another Knightmare Teletext adventure will be recovered.
It's happened! There are now two restored (i.e. playable) Knightmare Teletext adventures online:
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To the Ice Palace of Aesandre
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Journey through the Lairsdale
You can play both on Andrew Nile's website here.
Good grief, the second one. I'm pleased it's been recovered, but yikes...
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Paul Rose, aka. Mr. Biffo, has recorded a playthrough of the two available games with his wife on their YouTube channel. Paul created the graphics for the games based on Michael Cule's scripts.
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About 27 years ago, I had my first interaction with this website: an email reminiscing about the Knightmare Teletext games.
I'm pleased to tell you that there are now four restored Knightmare Teletext games available to play:
- Eagle Quest (1993)
- To the Ice Palace of Aesandre (1993)
- Journey through the Lairsdale (1993)
- Swamp Quest (1994)
Thank you to Andrew Nile, Neil Miles, Adrian Burke and Alistair Buxton.
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About 27 years ago, I had my first interaction with this website: an email reminiscing about the Knightmare Teletext games.
I'm pleased to tell you that there are now four restored Knightmare Teletext games available to play:
- Eagle Quest (1993)
- To the Ice Palace of Aesandre (1993)
- Journey through the Lairsdale (1993)
- Swamp Quest (1994)
Thank you to Andrew Nile, Neil Miles, Adrian Burke and Alistair Buxton.
I'm pleased to tell you that there are now four restored Knightmare Teletext games available to play:
- Eagle Quest (1993)
- To the Ice Palace of Aesandre (1993)
- Journey through the Lairsdale (1993)
- Swamp Quest (1994)
Wow, brilliant that they've all been found!
Eagle Quest is the only one I remember playing back in the day. I never managed to complete it and apparently I am still no better at it.
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