Death in the Caribbean on the Commodore 64 is a graphic text adventure where you’re a lone treasure hunter prowling a dangerous Caribbean island in search of buried pirate gold. The screen is split between colorful location illustrations and a minimalist text window, and you interact via a simple two-word parser (verb–noun) as you trek through jungles, beaches, lagoons, a maze, and alligator-infested areas, solving classic “use item in right place” puzzles and even cracking a major cryptogram near the end. It’s notoriously unforgiving—wrong moves often lead to instant death, and progress depends on saving frequently and following the authors’ intended solutions closely—but for patient players it offers a very old-school, map-heavy island treasure-hunt experience.