## Description
_Byte_ is a computer themed text adventure game. The player enters a maze and
has to retrieve the ten computer circuits needed to construct a computer
system and then find a way home. The circuits that needs to be found include
four language cards, two interfaces, a printer, a disk driver, a monitor and a
teletext module. The circuits are randomly located in boxes, caches and other
places. Some of the hiding places have evil circuits that weaken the player’s
traits. To help in finding only the good ones, a map and an estimate circuit
can be used, but only after they have been located. Interaction is done by
entering abbreviations, for example ‘o’ to open box and ‘p’ to pick up an
item.
At the same time the player has to avoid getting killed by the monsters that
are sent by the mighty computer Byte. Monsters can be dealt with in three
ways: bribing, fighting mentally and fighting physically. Bribing involve
giving away one collected item. Fighting mentally involve giving the right
answer to a multiplication problem where five numbers briefly flash onto the
screen. In the physical fight the player and the AI take turns playing a
simple action mini game. The enemy appears to the right and an arrow moves up
and down to the left. The player simply has to press the fire button at the
right time to hit the enemy and some hit points will then be deducted.
When starting out the player gets to choose which of ten computers to play as.
Each computer has different advantages and disadvantages with the cheaper ones
being weaker. There are five traits (speed, ram level, rom level, linguistic
level and expansion level) that can be improved by buying extra components
such as chips and cards.
Byte