Snowball (game)

Snowball (game)

Silicon Dreams is a trilogy of interactive fiction games developed by Level 9 Computing during the 1980s. The first game was Snowball, released in 1983, followed a year later by Return to Eden, and then by The Worm in Paradise in 1985. The following year they appeared together in a bundle as the first, second and last of the Silicon Dreams. Early advertisements gave it the title of Silicon Dream, but it was later pluralised.

As most Level 9 games, the trilogy used an interpreted language called A-code and appeared on all major home computer platforms of the time, on either diskette or cassette. Level 9 self-published each game separately, but the bundle was published by Telecomsoft, which sold it in the United States under the Firebird label and in Europe under the Rainbird label.

The trilogy is set in a not too-distant future when humans have started colonising space. For the first two instalments the player takes the role of Kim Kimberly, an undercover agent, whose goal in Snowball is to save the colonist's spacecraft from crashing into a star, and in Return to Eden to stop the defence system at the destination planet of Eden from destroying the craft. In The Worm in Paradise, the player, taking on the role of an unnamed citizen of Eden, must travel around the city of Enoch, learn its secrets, earn money and save the planet.