Lost Dutchman Mine (video game)

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{{Short description|1989 video game}}

{{Infobox video game

| title = Lost Dutchman Mine

|image = Lost Dutchman Mine - cover art (IBM PC DOS).jpg

|image_size =

|caption = PC cover art

|developer = Magnetic Images

|publisher = Magnetic Images

|released = 1989

|genre = Adventure

|modes = Single-player

|platforms = Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS

}}

Lost Dutchman Mine is a non-linear adventure video game which puts the player in the role of a gold miner, in 1896 A.D. The game was the biggest success for its publisher, Magnetic Images.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

The player was free to roam around the desert and town at will, constrained only by the need to make sure he had enough food to eat and a safe place to sleep. Earning money could be accomplished in a variety of ways, including panning for gold in a river, mining for gold in a cave or capturing a wanted bandit. Food could be purchased or caught from a river if the player had previously acquired fishing gear.

The game became well known for its breezy, free-flowing nature. The game was also notable for not having a single environment for the player to operate in; the location of mines and rivers, and the details of characters the player could meet were different each time the game was played.