Pyracurse (1986)

Pyracurse, originally known as Sphinx during development, was released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum 48K. The game was published by Hewson Consultants Ltd, with the development team consisting of Mark Goodall, Keith Prosser, and Dominic Robinson, who handled the coding, game design, and in-game graphics.

This graphic adventure game supports a single player and features an isometric 3D graphical view. The gameplay is designed for control via a Kempston joystick.

The game was sold on cassette for £9.95. There are no records of the title being released on other platforms.

Pyracurse received an average magazine score of 84.20%. It earned several prestigious awards, including the Crash Smash from Crash magazine, the Sinclair User Classic title, and the ZX Computing Globella award, while also being named Game of the Month by Computer & Video Games.

The game was well-known in the Soviet scene, appearing in magazines like Revival and Spectrofon with published POKE codes. It was widely distributed on cassette with cracks by MSInc and saw several releases adapted for TR-DOS.