HDK 211 † ARBADAX “The Mines of Malagus” CASSETTE + BOOKLET

GRAPHITE-COLORED CASE WITH SILVER UV PRINTING / J-CARD / 24-PAGE BOOKLET

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“You are an adventurer traveling across the land with your sword and shield, in search of challenges…”

“Mines of Malagus” is a classic dungeon-crawl adventure set in a dark underground world. Will you be able to complete old Nytrak’s mission? Three fragments of a marble tombstone lie scattered throughout the mines. If you find them and bring them back to the surface, peace will reign once again in this remote village. But be careful: deadly and unknown dangers lurk in the dark depths of the mines!

The incredible ARBADAX finally joins the HDK catalog with this original album of solemn and macabre dungeon synth, blending the metal sensibilities of the ’80s with VHS soundtracks. An album not to be missed!

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In the 1980s, there was a boom in so-called “game books”—interactive books, usually in the fantasy genre, in which the reader was asked to make choices and solve puzzles to reach the last page.

PROTEUS, a magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1988, featured a complete interactive adventure to play in every issue: these were simple dungeon crawls, treasure hunts filled with oddities, strange puzzles, and absurd monsters.

The PROTEUS adventures weren’t masterpieces, but they were fun and damn hard: there were often dozens of items to find in order to complete the mission and defeat the final monster, and more often than not, the one that mattered was missing; Furthermore, it was essential to draw maps of the dungeons so as not to get lost in the paragraphs, but these maps often… didn’t add up.

In short: lots of fun for us kids from the analog era!