Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams

Posted by Ernest Petti.
First posted on 30 January 1999. Last updated on 02 August 2024.
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Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams is a classic Infocom game in the style of the Zork and Enchanter series. The game takes place in the same universe and the story makes a couple of passing references to those series. No prior knowledge of the Zork or Enchanter series is required or even helpful to succeed in this game. Wishbringer is considered by its fans as a short introduction to the…

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Very Good

Started playing this game to while the time away during the COVID-19 pandemic. Described as an entry level game for beginners - which I consider to be - and I find the game challenging though enjoyable.

Great Britain (UK) By Andrew Johnson • On 06 June 2020 • From London

Excellent

I gave it a five because this is the very first game I ever played and loved on a computer (along with King's Quest and Hitchhiker's Guide hehe). I was 9 years old when I got it, and sat down in front of the 64 playing it for hours at a time. Triumph was at the end of the summer when I *finally* solved it. Sweet, innocent, and simple. Fond memories indeed.

Upon reflection, I played quite a lot of text games which required hours and hours of reading (and creative effort) on my behalf. I wish these text games were still around. I also recall typing in every single dirty word I could think of, and the cute responses I would get in return lol. You go try telling Mr. Crisp or the old lady to "Shut up".

United States By Kristin • On 08 July 2008 • From Bloomfield, USA

Excellent

The author has given rather so-so ratings to Wishbringer, even though he seems a bit kinder to the game in his prose. Despite the relative ease of the puzzles, which was deliberate (Infocom had asked Brian Moriarty to write a game for beginners), I consider Wishbringer one of Infocom's best games with a very unique sweetness and charm. The puzzles may be simple but they are still fun, even to players highly experienced in Interactive Fiction, and they are all all perfectly integrated with the strange and magical world in which the game is set. This is not a game in the Zork series, yet Moriarty even managed to work in a small and very clever tie to Zork I. And frankly, despite its humor and relative simplicity, it earns a place in one of the great mythic genres that will never die, the battle between Good and Evil, with a subtle secondary theme about our need for companionship. Five stars, say I!

United States By Harry Kaplan • On 10 June 2008 • From Brooklyn, NY, USA

I have been searching all day for Wishbringer and I couldn't believe my luck when I found it! I loved it on the Commodore-my first intro to computers. Thank you so much. I now have to figure out to save it. Is there a CD I can order of Wishbringer text game?
Thanks again,
Madeline Shortell

By Madeline Shortell • On 07 September 2002 • From Derby, CT

I have a copy of Wishbringer, DOS 2.0 or higher on 5 1/4" floopy disk.
Copyright @ 1985, 1988 with PD-IZOG-04 on label. An all text version of the game which we have never been able to solve.
Is there a updated version, Windows 98, with move that a text transcript?

This review dated 6/20/99 is the same story by Brian Moriaty only eleven years later.
What would be the differences in the three versions?

Your review is very good and clear, but with a difficulty or 2 I must be a very poor game player.

By Jerry Grant • On 10 June 2000 • From Arlington, Texas U.S.A.