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| William Wobbler | |
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 Cover art | |
| Developer(s) | Antony Crowther |
| Publisher(s) | Wizard Development |
| Designer(s) | Antony Crowther |
| Platform(s) | Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum |
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| Genre(s) | Adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
William Wobbler is a video game developed by Antony Crowther and released by Wizard Development in 1985 for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
The player must guide William to find ten pieces of a puzzle, hidden throughout a vast landscape of caverns.
The game was distributed with a second disk labelled "Competition Disk." When the game was completed, a file was to be saved to this disk and sent to Wizard Development who awarded an undisclosed prize for the first entry received. [2]
The game's author stated in 2014 that the prize was never claimed. [3] No definite solution to the puzzle is known.
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