| Full title | Hobbit, The
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| Year of release | 1982
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| Publisher | Melbourne House (UK)
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| Re-released by | Sinclair Research Ltd (UK)
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| Author(s) | Beam Software (Philip Mitchell, Veronika Megler)
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| Tie-in licence | J.R.R. Tolkien (UK) (book: Hobbit, The)
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| Machine type | ZX Spectrum 48K
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| Number of players | 1
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| Controls | Keyboard
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| Type | Adventure: Text
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| Message language | English
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| Original publication | Commercial
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| Original price | £14.95
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| Budget price | £9.95
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| Availability | Available as both Perfect TZX and non-TZX
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| Protection scheme | None
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| Additional info | Appeared on tape 2, side A of the compilation Tolkien Trilogy, The (Beau-Jolly Ltd)
Participant in the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards
Features Illustrated Adventure
Features Bookware
This title has known errors
Also listed on Wikipedia and Freebase
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| Remarks | 2nd place in the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Game of the Year 1983.
Winner of the C&VG 1983 Golden Joystick Awards - Best Strategy Game.
There also was Guide to Playing the Hobbit, A.
This was the first Spectrum game ever to sell a million copies.
Veronika remembers: "It was never released in the US, because some company owned the rights to the pictures, and wouldn't let us license it there.
On the funny side - in a pre-release version I'd written in an angry dwarf that kept trying to kill you, and if you did something (I don't remember what) it became a randy dwarf, and kept following you around and propositioning you. But Fred and Phil decided that was a little too much, and made me take it out again."
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| SPOT comments | re-issued at £9.95 without the book
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| Other systems | This title was also advertised for and/or published on the Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and MSX
An unofficial conversion exists for the Commodore Plus/4
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| Score |
8.54 (207 votes) 
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 3.83 | page 131 | (Feature)
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| ZX Computing | 4.83 | page 76 | (Review)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 6.83 | page 407 | (Letter)
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| Crash | 2.84 | page 63 | (LivingGuide)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 3.84 | page 306 | (News/Note - A Guide to Playing The Hobbit (book))
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| Micro Adventurer | 3.84 | page 5 | (Letter)
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| Computer Answers | 4.84 | page 61 | (Feature - The Adventure Man (Philip Mitchell))
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| Micro Adventurer | 4.84 | page 5 | (Letter)
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| Micro Adventurer | 4.84 | page 49 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 4.84 | page 149 | (News/Note - A Guide to Playing The Hobbit (book))
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| TV Gamer | 4.84 | page 29 | (Review)
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| Computer & Video Games | 5.84 | page 165 | (News/Note)
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| Home Computing Weekly | 5.84 | page 338 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.86 | page 218 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 5.86 | page 218 | (News/Note)
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| Your Sinclair | 5.86 | page 62 | (Tips)
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| Computer & Video Games | 6.86 | page 85 | (Letter)
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| Sinclair User | 8.86 | page 96 | (News/Note)
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| Your Computer | 8.86 | page 68 | (Tips)
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| Your Sinclair | 8.86 | page 73 | (News/Note) | [full page]
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| Your Sinclair | 10.86 | page 69 | (Hack/Poke)
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| ZX Computing | 10.86 | page 86 | (Tips)
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| ZX Computing | 10.86 | page 88 | (Review)
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| Your Sinclair | 11.86 | page 66 | (Tips)
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| Popular Computing Weekly | 2.87 | page 319 | (Tips)
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| MicroHobby | 11.88 | page 47 | (Tokes) | [full page]
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| MicroHobby | 3.90 | page 56 | (Archivero) | [full page]
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