''Spy Snatcher'' is a floppy disk-based text adventure released by

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Software in 1988. It was the last professional text adventure to be released on the

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and

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. It was also released for

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( +3 disk only),

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, PC,

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, Atari ST and

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Plot

The secret plans for the Sonic Macrothrodule have been leaked to foreign powers by a mole. You play an agent of MI7 and have only an hour to solve the puzzle and reveal the mole.

External links

* 1988 video games 1990s interactive fiction Acorn Archimedes games Amstrad CPC games Amstrad PCW games Atari ST games BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games DOS games Single-player video games Spy video games Video games developed in the United Kingdom ZX Spectrum games {{adventure-videogame-stub