ASCII Ascent (Sinclair ZX Spectrum)

by Matthew Begg

--= ASCII ASCENT =--

System Requirements: Sinclair ZX Spectrum 16k/48k/+/128k/+2/+3/Next/The Spectrum

Written by Matthew Begg for the 2026 BASIC 10-Liner Competition (PUR-120 category)

--= INTRODUCTION =--

The year is 1978. You are a graduate student at the University’s Department of Computer Science. The legendary R.O.G.U.E. Mainframe — the Research-Oriented Graduate Unix Engine — has locked the building’s lifts and synchronised the security systems to a faulty ASCII table.

The Mission: You must ascend 120 procedurally-generated levels of the Computer Science Block to reach the rooftop satellite uplink. Only by manually resetting the system at the summit can you stop the mainframe from wiping the University’s research database. Armed only with your wits and health, you must build up your experience to navigate a monolith filled with hardware malfunctions and corrupted data strings.

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Source: https://bunsen.itch.io/ascii-ascent-sinclair-zx-spectrum-by-matthew-begg