Yenght
Developer(s)Dinamic Software
Publisher(s)Dinamic Software
Platform(s)ZX Spectrum
Release1984
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Yenght: La Fuente de la Juventud is a Spanish interactive fiction game published in 1984 by Dinamic Software for the ZX Spectrum. It is written in BASIC.[1] Yenght is the first game from Dinamic Software and the first graphic adventure game published in the Spanish market.

Gameplay

The game begins inside a maze where the player must first find a key and escape through the exit. Once outside, the player begins searching, but must be careful because outside there are several locations that connect with the labyrinth.[2] The game also has rudimentary secondary characters, although perhaps due to programming error, it is possible to talk to them even after death.[3]

Plot

The player's mission is to find the fountain of youth.

Development

The development process was both handmade and homemade - tapes were not manufactured until they had received enough orders to justify them ordering copies of the print covers and making duplicates of the cassette tapes. Originally they received a few tens of mail orders, but this later ballooned into several hundreds.[4]

Reception

El Mundo Del Spectrum wrote that despite its simplicity, the game "overflowed with magic and charm".[5] IGN recommended that players take out a paper and pencil to draw a map and avoid getting lost in the game's world.[6]

Legacy

The game was featured as part of FX Museum's official launch celebrating 30 years of their company's video games[7] - by this point, Dinamic Software had evolved into FX Interactive.[8]

References

  1. López, Juan Carlos (2018-02-17). "Así fue como Dinamic conquistó el mercado con juegos multiplataforma en los 80, cuando Unity ni siquiera era un proyecto". Xataka (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  2. Revista MicroHobby. Nº 2. pag. 15
  3. Yenght en El Mundo Del Spectrum
  4. Yenght, la primera aventura conversacional en español dice (2012-02-23). "Yenght, la primera aventura conversacional en español". PixFans (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  5. "Yenght (1984) Dinamic – El Mundo del Spectrum" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  6. Fernández, Por Juan Elías (2015-01-13). "Estudios de la Edad de Oro: Dinamic (1)". IGN España (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  7. "FXINTERACTIVE". juegos.fxinteractive.com. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
  8. Pascual, Juan Antonio (2014-05-14). "Juega gratis primeros videojuegos españoles de hace 30 años". ComputerHoy (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-08-24.


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