Save Reaper

Another dream! This one was about an EGA horror adventure game, a bit like Hugo's House of Horrors with the player character wandering around a large and quite blank mansion - the sprites were all black on top of backgrounds that changed colour depending on the room.

I remember very little about what was in it, apart from that I had to switch to my other computer and download a new version there - and that in the new third version, sometimes when you saved the game, the "Save Reaper" would randomly appear - a black cloaked sprite that would float in from the side of the screen and chase you or just materialize right in front of your character, and would split him in half with his scythe unless you moved at the right time. I was looking at a forum for the game and reading complaints about how frightening this had been when it was added in the second version, with other people saying how great it was because it took the safety out of saving all the time...

I can make a reasonable guess that this dream came about because of rediscovering a couple of DOS games the previous day. One of them was Rimtrix, a completely insurmountable puzzle game by regular PC Plus contributor Richard L. Wright - I remembered about it because of ranting to ravenworks about how impossible it was to slide the puzzle around to create paths through the maze for the coloured balls, guiding them from their randomly-chosen start point on the left hand side of the screen to the corresponding buckets on the other side. It's a task much like in Wallace and Gromit, laying a model railway frantically in front of a train while it's at full steam.

Then I accidentally went into the Redefine Keys screen and found out that it had a Rotate button. That would have been useful to know 23 years ago.

I've now seen level 2, and it is cyan.