Volcano Island
On a distant volcanic island lies the long lost treasure of Amet Singhal, guarded by a fierce dragon and the fires of the volcano itself. Can you avoid these and other deadly perils and recover the treasure? And is there more to this treasure than meets the eye?
Source: The 2007 site, which took its Spectravideo copy from the packaging.1984 · New in the M&M Software advert, PC Games, December 1984
Written by Mark Fitzgerald and published as M&M Software; Mountain Valley Software distributed it. The title screen gives the name in full — “COPYRIGHT BY MARK FITZGERALD” — where The Lost Princess gives only the initial.
The game asks the player’s name and uses it: the title screen greets GOOSE, while the opening narrative has the dying father address GARRY. Two captures, two names, the same slot. No capture of the prompt itself survives.
The title screen capture is an emulator window rather than a native-resolution grab, so it is shown smoothed; the other two are native 256×192 and are shown pixel-for-pixel like the rest of the site.
The game opens on a deathbed rather than the island: the player’s father presses a gold piece into their hand and says “with gold you can buy knowledge, knowledge leads to wealth, but wealth is not everything”. None of that is in the packaging blurb.
The inlay strapline reads “A TEXT AND COLOUR GRAPHICS” — a word looks to have been dropped in setting it. The Lost Princess has “A TEXT ADVENTURE WITH COLOUR GRAPHICS”.
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