Malinche Entertainment
                      www.malinche.net

                       Visited by Sue

I meant to tell you about this site last issue but totally forgot.
I heard about it when I was contacted by its editor, Howard
Sherman. He'd found the SynTax site and suggested a reciprocal
link which I readily agreed to after seeing his site.

So, why should SynTax and Malinche have an interest in each
other's sites? Malinche is far from being a retro site but they do
have a strong interest in adventures, including text adventures.
They've released one commercially called Pentari: First Light
(PFL). I have a game called Pentari by the same author on a SynTax
disk which Dorothy sent a solution in for back in Issue 66. I
assume this is the prequel mentioned on the site. There's a demo
for PFL available for download. The full game has almost 300 rooms
and comes on a CD with snazzy packaging. Next issue I'll check out
the demo and tell you what it's like.

Interestingly Howard came to the UK and researched some locations
over here for the game, one of which was Chislehurst Caves. This
is a 22 mile underground system which is only a couple of miles
from here. It became a refuge for many Londoners during WW2 when
they lived in the tunnels to escape Germany's bombing raids.
Malinche have other games to download.  Baltimore:24 was Howard's
first foray into IF. He's also released an amusing work-related IF
game called The Bastard Operator from Hell - that also sounds
worth a look! That was actually written by someone else, Simon
Travaglia of http://bofh.ntk.net

Malinche are currently working on Greystone, a muder mystery set
in a psychiatric hospital. It's due for release in October and is
based on a real hospital in New Jersey. The game is illustrated
with atmospheric photos of the institution. More news as I get it.

So check out the site and see what they have to offer. And if you
want to review any of their games for SynTax, I'll be very happy!
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