James Clavell's Shogun

31.12.1988
Genre: Adventure
In this Infocom interactive adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun novel, you play John Blackthorne, pilot-major of the Dutch trading ship Erasmus, shipwrecked in Japan and struggling to survive in a foreign society.

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