The Oasis of Shalimar
Lost in the shifting sands of the desert lies the ancient oasis of Shalimar, now an empty, crumbling ruin. In this decaying paradise you must find and store ten golden treasures, but take care — the oasis is not quite as dead as it seems . . .
Transcribed from the cassette inlay.1983 · Copyright 1983 on the disk loading screen; advertised October 1984
Play it
The disk image is under “From the archive” below. It runs in VICE, which is free for Windows, macOS and Linux, or on a THEC64. Two-word commands: DIG, HELP, GET AXE, GO NORTH, DROP SWORD. The hint sheet below has the solutions.
How it plays
Commands the manual gives as examples: DIG, HELP, GET AXE, GO NORTH, DROP SWORD.
T = List of Treasures stored.
Screens
Design notebook
From Brian Betts’s working notes, scanned flat. Open a page to read it full size.
Earlier cover
A second, unbordered cover design for this title, and most likely the packaging it had before October 1984. That autumn Mountain Valley told dealers it had “completely redesigned and upgraded” its cover artwork, and the list of titles it sent out with the October offer shows every game in the bordered design at the top of this page. Only titles already in the range have a design like this one: the two released with the redesign, Himalayan Odyssey and The Volcano of Raka-Tua, do not. The letters are in the archive.
From the archive
- Cassette inlay the original blurb and instructions, as printed
- Hint sheet (PDF) scanned from the sheet Mountain Valley sold separately
- Disk image (.d64) 171 KB — for VICE or any C64 emulator
