The Time Machine

_The Time Machine_ is the second in the _Mysterious Adventure_ series of text
adventures by Brian Howarth. You are a newspaper reporter, come to investigate
the eccentric professor who lives all by himself out on the moors. You start
the game in a swamp and must find your way to an old manor house. When you get
there, you find the place deserted though. Ultimately you must rescue the
professor by finding 3 missing prisms which control his time machine, which
are lost in time. Items found in one destination sometimes have to be used in
another.

As the other games in the series, the game uses an interpreter similar to the
Scott Adams adventure engine, and thus also has the same limitations – a basic
2-word parser, limited vocabulary, and brief descriptions. Illustrations are
included in Spectrum, C64, Dragon and Oric ports.