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Quote of the day

The ship rocks from the force of multiple explosions. The lights go out, and you feel a sudden drop in pressure accompanied by a loud hissing. Too bad you weren't in the escape pod...

-- Planetfall

Factoid of the day

In Zork III, an earthquake occurs after about 150 turns. If you haven't completed a certain part of the story before the earthquake, the game cannot be finished. Frustratingly, there is no obvious way to know when the game has been soft-locked in this manner.

*And now for something incompletely different!*
Nov 1984

Micro Adventurer, #4

~1 minute read

Feb 1984

Infocom releases detective mystery

INFOCOM have released a new game called Witness, based on a detective mystery.

The Witness package contains a detective's dossier of clues, the National Detective Gazette, a suicide note, telegram, a matchbox and that day's news events.

The game is set in February 1938 and concerns death of a society matron. A con-man is trying to frame the dead woman's husband.

You, as the witness, work from a clue-ridden police file and against a 12-hour time limit to solve the suspicious society murder.

Clues hint that it is a sordid family affair that may lead everyone from the heiress to the butler in prison.

It's up to the player to sort through the clues, motives and alibis in order to solve the mystery.

The Witness is available for £33.95 for the Apple and IBM + PC.

This article appeared in
Micro Adventurer
Feb 1984

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