The Hobbit (1982 video game)

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The Hobbit
Video game
DeveloperBeam Software
PublisherMelbourne House, Tansoft (The Hobbit) and Addison-Wesley (The Hobbit Software Adventure)
PlatformTRS-80 (never published), ZX-Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, Oric-1, MSX, BBC B, Dragon, MVS (never released) (The Hobbit), Amiga (never released), Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Macintosh (The Hobbit Software Adventure)
Release date1982
GenreIllustrated Text-Adventure

The Hobbit (also known as the Hobbit Software Adventure) is one of the first video games in Middle-earth. It is one of the most classic Text-Adventures in Europe. The authors of these software were Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler. It has a good vocabulary and graphics. The Boggit is a parody of this game. The game had four different covers.