Urban Upstart

Urban Upstart
Developer(s)Pete Cooke
Publisher(s)Richard Shepherd Software
Platform(s)ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64
Release1983
Genre(s)Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

Urban Upstart is a 1983 text adventure programmed by Pete Cooke and published by Richard Shepherd Software for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. Urban Upstart is set in the fictional British town of Scarthorpe, a particularly grim town with high crime and unemployment rates. The protagonist begins in their house at three o'clock in the morning, with the objective of escaping from Scarthorpe.