Braminar
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Braminar is a text based fantasy computer game for MS-DOS, written in the 1980s.
It is not a text adventure in the classic sense of command-driven interactive fiction, but rather what the author called "boolean interactive fiction" where the vast majority of the game consisted of yes or no questions. Beyond that it had rudimentary economics and inventory management - food for yourself and a number of male and female slaves you collected, weapons, and a small number of other collectible items.
The goal was described on the opening screen:
Welcome to:
B R A M I N A R
You will start out a 7-10 level player, and you must gain
in experience by battling monsters, to build up to 20th level.
Then, if you have the Staff of Aviatar, & it's prime command,
you can challenge the Overlord, and battle his armies. If
you succeed, you will be the new king of BRAMINAR!
Press any key...
This game was very popular at one point in the BBS and "shareware/freeware disk catalog" scenes; it is simple, easy to play, and has a setting which mixes common fantasy tropes with quirky humor.
As of 2006 it is readily available on the Internet, although there is no single home website for it. It is runnable on any computer capable of running MS-DOS programs either natively or via emulation.
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