Pimania is a text-and-graphics adventure game released by Automata UK in 1982 for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, and ZX81 computers. The player negotiates a surreal landscape with the aid of the mysterious Pi-Man, Automata's mascot. The B side of the game cassette features a bizarre Pimania song played on a VL-Tone and vocals.

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  • Pimania war ein Text- und Grafikadventure für den ZX Spectrum, den BBC Micro, den Dragon 32 und den ZX81, das 1982 von Automata UK Ltd. veröffentlicht wurde. Aufgabe des Spielers war, eine surrealistische Spielwelt mit der Hilfe von Pi-Man zu durchqueren, dem Maskottchen von Automata. Auf der B-Seite der Programm-Audiocassette befand sich ein Pimania-Lied. Automata schrieb einen Preis in Form einer goldenen Sonnenuhr mit einem Wert von £6.000, aus. Die Hinweise, wo dieser Preis zu finden war, hatte Automata im Spiel versteckt. 1985 ging der Preis an Sue Cooper und Lizi Newman, die herausgefunden hatten, dass die Sonnenuhr nur an einem 22. Juli bei einer Kalkstatue in Form eines Pferdes in Hindover Hill gefunden werden konnte.
  • Pimania is a text-and-graphics adventure game released by Automata UK in 1982 for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, and ZX81 computers. The player negotiates a surreal landscape with the aid of the mysterious Pi-Man, Automata's mascot. The B side of the game cassette features a bizarre Pimania song played on a VL-Tone and vocals. The Pi-Man also stars in his own long-running, surreal, comic-strip, soap opera in the company's adverts on the back page of Popular Computing Weekly magazine and appears in several subsequent games of different kinds. The catch-phrase for the game's adverts was "There's no blood in our games, it's Automata sauce". Automata gave a prize of a golden sundial worth £6,000 for the first person to solve the various cryptic clues to its location that were hidden within Pimania. The sundial was eventually won in 1985 by Sue Cooper and Lizi Newman, who correctly worked out that it could only be found on July 22 (because Pi is sometimes rounded to 22/7) at the chalk horse at Hindover Hill near Litlington, East Sussex. In 2010 Feeding Tube Records, a small label in the United States, released "Pimania: The Music of Mel Croucher & Automata U.K. , Ltd. ", a deluxe vinyl LP album of the musical B-Sides to the Pimania games, as well as tracks from other Automata releases. The album came with extensive liner notes by Croucher and Caroline Bren, as well as a large poster featuring selections from the original Automata print campaigns and was issued in a one time edition of 500 copies.
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  • Pimania war ein Text- und Grafikadventure für den ZX Spectrum, den BBC Micro, den Dragon 32 und den ZX81, das 1982 von Automata UK Ltd. veröffentlicht wurde. Aufgabe des Spielers war, eine surrealistische Spielwelt mit der Hilfe von Pi-Man zu durchqueren, dem Maskottchen von Automata. Auf der B-Seite der Programm-Audiocassette befand sich ein Pimania-Lied. Automata schrieb einen Preis in Form einer goldenen Sonnenuhr mit einem Wert von £6.000, aus.
  • Pimania is a text-and-graphics adventure game released by Automata UK in 1982 for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, Dragon 32, and ZX81 computers. The player negotiates a surreal landscape with the aid of the mysterious Pi-Man, Automata's mascot. The B side of the game cassette features a bizarre Pimania song played on a VL-Tone and vocals.
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