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I loved this game/novel. It really was more of a novel than a game but it worked really well. I played alone in my quiet apartment so I really did feel like the
by nox101 3y ago
I loved this game/novel. It really was more of a novel than a game but it worked really well. I played alone in my quiet apartment so I really did feel like the main character.
In the game (yes this is explained on the site), you're an astronaut who arrives back on earth 100yrs after you left. You find no one is on earth. You find a single active computer terminal which you use to research what happened. You eventually discover an AI which helps you and "generates" most of the narrative. Since in real life, you are at a computer using this terminal, you're the main character in that sense that you're the astronaut.
It's also interesting because because it came out in 1986 so it's idea of what a future computer terminal would look like, what services it would offer, etc are all shaped by what was common in 1986. There were no web browsers in 1986. There was Compuserve, GEnie, BBSes, stuff like that.
Also, I'm not sure the Mac version is best. I'm pretty sure I played on an Amiga which is at least color (Mac didn't have color til 1987)
https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=856 https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=856
Not that color is important for the game, but it is at least a more "modern" terminal than monochrome and so fits the theme a tiny bit better.
Randomly, I remember a minor character in the story had otter fur on her head and down her back because genetic engineering had gotten to a level that made that easily possible.