Cranston Manor

Cranston Manor is a graphic adventure published for the Apple II by On-Line Systems in 1981 and is Hi-Res Adventure #3.^[4] The player must invade a mansion that was occupied by a millionaire and steal the sixteen treasures that are inside of it.^[4] The game allows players to switch between graphics-based and text-based gameplay.^[4]

Cranston Manor
Developer(s)	On-Line Systems
Publisher(s)	On-Line Systems
Designer(s)	Larry Ledden[1] Harold DeWitz[2] Ken Williams[2]
Series	Hi-Res Adventures
Engine	ADL
Platform(s)	Apple II, FM-7, PC-88, PC-98
Release	NA: 1981[3]
Genre(s)	Graphic adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Cranston Manor is based on Larry Ledden's text adventure The Cranston Manor Adventure. The graphical version was programmed by Ledden, Ken Williams, and Harold DeWitz.^[2]

Development

Larry Ledden wrote The Cranston Manor Adventure as text-only interactive fiction for the Atari 8-bit computers. It was published by Artworx in 1981. Sierra On-Line acquired the rights from Ledden to create a graphical version which was published as Cranston Manor for the Apple II. Ledden was paid royalties, but did not receive credit in Sierra's version.^[1]