How to play. Press play and wait for the tape to load, as you would have had to, or press QUICK LOAD to skip the wait. The theme tune plays first; the episode starts at the yellow >. You are Perry. Type what you want to do and press ENTER: READ NOTE, LOOK, NORTH, TAKE TIE. When the text stops at More, press any key or tap SPACE.
Commands. LOOK · EXAMINE (thing) · TAKE (thing) · DROP (thing) · INVENTORY · N, S, E, W, UP, DOWN · TALK · WAIT · CATCHPHRASE. HINT reads June's note again. SAVE and LOAD keep your place until the page is closed. RESTART starts the episode again. HELP shows this list on the Spectrum. There are others. They are listed in the TV Times.
Click the screen and type on your own keyboard, or use the buttons and the box above, which type into the Spectrum for you.
Turn the sound up. The theme tune and the studio audience are on the beeper. The audience laughs for as long as it says it does, and you cannot type while it is laughing. Your score is how long it laughs for. The episode lasts twenty-nine minutes.
PERRY & JUNE is written in Sinclair BASIC for the 48K ZX Spectrum and runs here in an emulator. The tape (perry.tap) is a normal Spectrum tape: a BASIC loader, a loading screen and the game. It loads on real hardware too.
Emulation by JSSpeccy 3 by Matt Westcott (GPL-3). Spectrum ROM courtesy of Amstrad.