Dream Zone

Dream Zone is a game in which an elixir from a scientist traps the player in his own imaginary dream world of terrifying creatures, magic, airships, a floating castle, and an infuriating bureaucracy, that he must escape to return to reality.^[1]

Dream Zone was released for the Apple II and Apple IIGS in the second quarter of 1988,^[2] for the MS-DOS in November 1988,^[3] and for the Amiga and Atari ST in December 1988.^[4]

Compute! stated that the game "truly conveys a dream-like feeling". The magazine praised its satire and the IIGS version's graphics, and stated that "it's hard to believe that the program was written by two high school juniors".^[9] A later Compute! review praised the graphics, story, and interface.^[10] The game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #134 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars.^[1] "The Pilgrim" of ACE gave the game a score of 68/100 for "landscape", 65/100 for "challenge", 79/100 for "system", and 69/100 for "encounters".^[11] Aktueller Software Markt gave the game a score of 9/10 for graphics, 11/10 for story, 6/10 for vocabulary, 10/10 for atmosphere, and 9/10 for price and performance.^[12]

The game sold upwards of 10,000 copies, earning the developers about $15,000.^[13]