Video Game

System:	BBC Micro / Electron
Title:	Hareraiser Prelude
Publisher:	Haresoft
Country:	UK
Date:	1984
Media Format:	Tape
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Cat#:	HS-BB CB-01
Genre:	Puzzle
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Hareraiser is a video game released in 1984 in the UK in two parts: Prelude and Finale. The game was published for Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro Model B, Commodore 64, Commodore VIC-20, Dragon 32, MSX, Oric Atmos, and ZX Spectrum at £8.95 for each part.

A prize worth £30,000 was on offer if the game could be solved.

The game takes the form of a series of graphical screens depicting grass, sky and trees with occasional text clues. The only interaction is pressing the cursor keys to follow a hare which moves across the screen and disappears off one of the sides.

There are no hints as to how the puzzle can be solved but it may be the case that the text and the position of the trees, sun, clouds and other elements (which are different on each screen) can be interpreted in some way. The solvers of Prelude would also then have to buy and solve Finale. They could then enter a competition to locate the prize, the bejewelled 18 carat "Golden Hare" pendant featured on the cover.

Haresoft claimed the game was released in two parts "to make it fun and enable competitors of all ages to participate".
Sinclair User magazine however suggested it was simply to make more money.

Haresoft stated that an additional clue had been revealed in Harrods by TV personality Anneka Rice. The nature of the clue remains unknown, as does whether or not Rice even revealed such a clue.

The game did not sell well and Haresoft went into liquidation. Hareraiser was never solved, and the hare was sold at a Sotheby's auction by the creditors in 1988. Although only given a guide price of £3,000–6,000,[6] it did in fact exceed Haresoft's stated value, selling for £31,900.[3] Although it was rumoured to have been sold again in the early 1990s, its whereabouts were unknown for over 20 years until July 2009 when an appeal was made on BBC Radio 4. The current owner's granddaughter got in touch and Kit Williams was reunited with the hare for a BBC TV doc

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