'''''James Clavell's Shōgun''''' is an interactive fiction computer game written by Dave Lebling and released by Infocom in 1989. Rather virtually all of Infocom's games, it was freed at a same period for many popular computer platforms of the time, like the Commodore 64, Apple II, and PC. When a title indicates, a game is according to a book Shōgun by James Clavell.

Plot
A game reproduces numbers of of the novel's "scenes", couple of of which are then interconnected in any way. A streaming video player assumes a role of John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus. When you took the voyage in the Pacific Ocean in the year 1600, the Erasmus is shipwrecked inside Japan. Blackthorne must exist inside a land in which each custom is when unfamiliar to him when the language. Fallowing learning a select few of the society's ways, he is drawn into the political struggle between warlords and lessens gagthe sustaining a Japanese woman. In time he embraces Japanese life & is honored as a samurai.

Feelies
Infocom continued its tradition of feelies, or additional things involved in the punt pack. A feelies involved by owning Shogun were: a map representing John Blackthorne's "known world" of 1600 A Soul of the Samurai, describing a history & significance of the brand of the samurai

Notes
By 1989, Infocom there are no yearn categorized its games based on data from figured difficulty level. Shogun can be said to fall anywhere from either Infocom's previous "Standard" level to "Expert". Players world health organization come intimately acquainted a novel, naturally, can buy a game to become good deal more easygoing than people world health organization use at times non scroll through a book.

Shogun features many illustrations in the style of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts. When graphics of any variety were disdained within Infocom's early years, several of their final games involved at least incident illustrations & images.

Within acutely direct contrast to Douglas Adams' close work by using Steve Meretzky on Infocom's ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy game, James Clavell contributed little to the design of the game, although he and Dave Lebling met several times. He treated the game as a traditional licensing agreement like than a collaboration. Consequently, a game contains several scenes from either a novel presented verbatim or made thinly interactional.

Dave Lebling has said that he considers Shogun a worst game he was ever responsible overall, although he is pleased many of the timing'' puzzles. [http://www.infocom-if.org/games/shogun/shogunspecs.html]