Cave Girl Clair
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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Adventure game from Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., Inc.  1985.

Rihannon Software intended to put out an entire series of games with different themes by creators Elisabeth Stott and Lucy Ewell. The others where titled Cave Girl Clair, Chelsea of the South Sea and Lauren of the 25th Century. It seems only Jenny of the Prairie was ever published, but at least Cave Girl Clair was also in a playable state and reviewed by Infoworld in the April 30, 1984 issue. 

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My Love Affair With Cave Girl Clair

When I was 9 or 10, my mom bought me a computer game for our old-school 80s computer. The game was called Cave Girl Clair and was part of a series of non-violent computer games for girls.

I absolutely LOVED the game. Poor Clair was accidentally left behind when her cave family migrated to warmer lands for winter (or maybe it was cooler lands for summer?). She had a pet rabbit and the entire game involved gathering food, gathering medicinal herbs, starting fires (with flint or sticks - your choice), and climbing trees to escape wild animals.

Sadly, I only got to enjoy it a couple of times before the floppy disk got all corrupted. (Yes...I said floppy disk. We used those things back then.)

Over the years, I've looked for this game repeatedly. (That makes me sound really geeky.) On Sunday, I found it!

All I had to do was add a Commodore 64 emulator to my computer and download the software. (That makes me sound even geekier!) In case you were wondering, emulators are legal and it's legal to download a backup copy for personal use if you already own the software and the software is out of print. But, if I am mistaken and someone wants to chase me down for the out-of-print, Commodore 64 version of Cave Girl Clair, I guess they can.

This reunion was 23 years in the making so I had to play it right away. Within 5 minutes, I had already killed Cave Girl Clair. Apparently, I took too long to start the fire. Since I can't remember how to start a fire, can't find any fire-making tools and keep getting Clair lost in the deep woods, I'll probably kill her a few more times. If only I could find an instruction manual! It's probably in a box somewhere in my parents' garage.


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