Silicon Dreams

The next year they were vended together as the first, second and last of the Silicon Dreams.

Early advertisements gave it the title of Silicon Dream, but it was pluralised later.

As most Level 9 games, the trilogy used an interpreted language termed A-code and was usable in all major types of home computer of the time, on either diskette or cassette.

Level 9 self-published each game separately, but the combination was published by Telecomsoft, which sold it in the United States with the tradename Firebird and in Europe with the tradename Rainbird.

The trilogy is set in a not too-distant future when humans have started colonising space.

For the first two instalments the player has the role of Kim Kimberly, an undercover agent, whose goal in Snowball is to save the colonist's spacecraft from crashing into a star, and in Return to Eden to stop the defence system at the destination planet of Eden from destroying the craft.

In The Worm in Paradise, the player, with the role of an unnamed citizen of Eden, must travel around the city of Enoch, learn its secrets, earn money and save the planet.

Silicon Dreams for Commodore 64 is currently worth €10.49 loose, €23.07 complete in box, and €47.19 factory sealed. Prices are based on real sales and update regularly on Gamevaro.

Silicon Dreams has a steady sales history on the tracked marketplaces, meaning it trades hands regularly and isn't considered particularly rare.

Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. For Silicon Dreams, loose is €10.49 and CIB is €23.07 — CIB commands a premium because original boxes and manuals are fragile and often don't survive.