20000 Meilen unter dem Meer takes its title from Jules Verne's 1870 novel, the one about Captain Nemo and the Nautilus, one of European software's favorite magnets in the 80s: the sea floor as a territory of wonder and threat. This German edition speaks to the German circuit of the time, where literary adaptations had a loyal audience.
The catalog keeps few firm credits for the program itself, so it is best taken for what it is: a piece of archaeology at the crossing of classic literature and home computers, when a floppy disk could promise leagues of underwater travel with a few graphics and a lot of text.
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