Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

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Spellcasting 301: Spring Break

Developer(s)	Legend Entertainment
Publisher(s)	Legend Entertainment
Designer(s)	Steve Meretzky
Platform(s)	DOS
Release date	1992
Genre(s)	Interactive fiction
Mode(s)	Single player
Media	Floppy disk
Input methods	Mouse, Keyboard

The text adventure game Spellcasting 301: Spring Break is the third and last installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment. All three games in the series tell the story of young Ernie Eaglebeak, a student at the prestigious Sorcerer University, progressing through his studies, learning the arcanes of magic, taking part in student life, occasionally saving the world as he knows it - and last but not least, having his way with any beautiful women he can get his hands on.

[edit] Technical notes

This is the first, and as it has turned out the only, Spellcasting game to use the 256-colour VGA version of the Legend interactive fiction interface, as well as capable of utilizing the sound card to play both sound effects and music.

Unlike the previous two parts, whose title pages resembled their box covers, the title page of Spellcasting 301 shows only the game's title on plain-blue background, whereas the box cover showed a girl in a bikini reclining on a floating tiger-striped air mattress.