[HN Gopher] 1983: Suspended ___________________________________________________________________ 1983: Suspended Author : TheLocehiliosan Score : 59 points Date : 2021-04-01 12:06 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (if50.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (if50.substack.com) | the_af wrote: | Wow. I'm a fan of text adventures (sorry, Interactive Fiction) | but I never heard of this game. The premise seems intriguing... | will have to play it! | schoen wrote: | This game is one of the unusual experiences referenced in M.C. | Frontalot's song "It Is Pitch Dark" (which is all about text- | adventure obsession). | | https://genius.com/1219782 | tofof wrote: | The article mentions the difficulty of playing Suspended for | modern players without access to its documentation or the | included 'feelies' (a map, tokens of the robots, an in-universe | lottery ticket). | | They are preserved at | http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html for anyone | wishing to attempt the game. | | The game itself is preserved at various abandonware sites, such | as at https://www.myabandonware.com/game/suspended-1nz which | seems to have versions for most platforms it was released on. | | The source code for the game has been recovered and is preserved | at https://github.com/historicalsource/suspended although there | is no currently known preserved compiler that can translate this | code into the playable .ZIP format ("Z-machine Interpreter | Program", not to be confused with the archival format). | TheLocehiliosan wrote: | I can attest to the difficulty in playing without the physical | materials/documentation. In my youth I spent so much time | playing a pirated copy of this game without getting very far. | Later in life I learned some more details that really opened up | the game for me. | makeworld wrote: | I thought the title was a joke at first, like it's 1984 when | you're banned, but if you're just suspended for a bit then it's | 1983. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-04-02 23:00 UTC)