Suspended
A Cryogenic Nightmare
| Implementers |
Michael Berlyn |
| Release Year | 1983 |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Difficulty | Expert |
They said you would sleep for half a millenium -- not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest frozen at the planet's nerve center, an underground complex 20 miles beneath the surface. Your brain, they told you, would be wired to a network of computers; your mind would continue to operate at a minimal level, overseeing maintenance of surface-side equilibrium. And you would not awake, so they promised, until your 500 years had elapsed -- barring, of course, the most dire emergency.
Then, and only then, you would be awakened to save your planet by strategically manipulating six robots, each of whom perceives the world differently. But such a catastrophe, you have been assured, could not possibly occur.
Good morning.
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From the Library (12 articles)
Suspended Review
Wouldn't it be wonderful, adventurers might muse, if Infocom and Mike Berlyn could get together? It would, and they did, and it is. The first product of Mike Berlyn at Infocom, working with Infocom's specially developed tools and methods and the input of the company's designers, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, is exactly what you might expect in your wildest dreams: a highly intelligent, intricately plotted, totally playable, challenging and satisfying adventure, and, of course, a breakthrough. . . .
~4 minute read
Infocom and Michael Berlyn: the perfect match News
With Michael Berlyn's writing skills and Infocom's technology, how can you lose? . . .
~1 minute read
Infocom Announces New Science-Fiction Masterpiece: Suspended News
Background â for hundreds of years the people of the planet have lived happy, carefree lives. Within the planet, a single human lies in suspended animation. His brain controls the vast computer which in turn controls the planetary transit systems, hydroponics, and weather. Unfortunately, insanity strikes this sleeping mind and thousands die in the ensuing chaos on the planetary surface. . . .
~1 minute read
Suspended Joins Interlogic Line News
Infocom has announced Suspended, the sixth game in the Interlogic product line. Suspended joins such adventure games as Deadline, Starcross, and the Zork trilogy. Interlogic games are highly interactive and feature a programming language that permits complete sentence communication between player and computer. The games run on virtually any computer, including DEC Rainbow, TI Professional Computers, Osborne 1, NEC APC. and 8-inch CP/M-based systems. . . .
~1 minute read
Suspended Review
Probably the newest and neatest wrinkle in adventuring is the ability to separately control multiple characters simultaneously. Not content to accomplish this logistically difficult trick with two or three characters, Michael Berlyn gives the player six different robots to control in Suspended. Each robot can be sent scurrying around the adventure, performing different tasks at the same time. There are occasions that require the combined talents of several of the robots working together to solve a particular problem. . . .
~3 minute read
Suspended Review
In this world where even the best computer games come and go in the space of a single month, the prose adventures of Infocom stand apart. Their unadorned text boasts only two colors (foreground and background); there are no illustrations, no sound effects to jazz up the action. Yet the Interlogic series is comfortably lodged in the top-25 list of every major software distributor. . . .
~5 minute read
Suspended: Review Review
In a cryogenic state, deep within the bowels of the planet Contra, your sleeping mind monitors the filtering computers that maintain a balance of the planet's food, transportation, and weather systems. Contra's population depends on these systems. Your conscious mind is the failsafe system. You are to be awakened only if there is an emergency. There is, of course, an emergency. . . .
~8 minute read
Suspended Review
From Infocom, creators of Zork I, II and III, Deadline, and Starcross, comes one of the most exciting games I have seen for the Apple. Suspended, written by science fiction author Michael Berlyn, is set far in the future on a planet run by computers. Apparently, the rulers of this planet don't trust their machines, because a lottery has selected you to be the guardian of the entire system. . . .
~2 minute read
Suspended Review
You are in cryogenic suspension on the planet Contra. Suddenly a tremor awakens you, and you must solve a complex matrix of life- and planet-threatening crises using the six robots of Contra's underground compound. The game is an all-text adventure, but comes with a map of the compound as well as pieces you can move around to keep track of each robot's position as the game progresses. . . .
~1 minute read
Suspended For Commodore 64 Review
In the world of text adventure games, Infocom has long been one of the leaders. In 1979, its programmers started writing their own language which enabled the adventure game player to communicate with the program using complex sentences instead of the usual one- or two-word commands. Ever since 1980, when Infocom marketed its first commercial success (Zork I), Infocom's games have almost always been on the various software best-seller lists. . . .
~4 minute read
Suspended in time Review Low-Q
This adventure, from Infocom, comes in a large box, with a white mask like face (obviously of a body held in deep-frozen suspension) staring out at the beholder -- removing this from the box reveals the screaming, terror-filled truth beneath. . . .
~9 minute read
Suspended Review
This is one of my all time favourites. You are in control of six robots, each of which has a distinct perception of the world and offers specific abilities within it. One specialises in sight, a second in hearing and a third in accessing information from computer memory banks. Through them you can hopefully solve an intertwined myriad of realistic and original problems. . . .
~1 minute read
In the Box (14 images)
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Historical Sales Data
Units Shipped By Year
| 19831 | |
| 19841 | |
| 1985 | |
| 19862 | |
| 87-893 |
Total units shipped: 103,564
Overall ranking: 8 of 32
Accounts for 4% of units sold
1 Includes units manufactured and sold by Commodore
2 Data for 1986 includes units shipped through June 1986 only
3 Data for April 1987 - March 1989
Source: Internal Infocom documents, archived by Steve Meretezky
