LIFE AFTER GMTIES
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must make their decisions and draw
volume provides a guide to setting goals and analyzing the performance
of various investments, Most interest
In Infocom's {55 Wheeler Street,
through the human body. The levels
Cambridge, MA 02138) The Witness, a man calls upon your help when he
a
virus
of virus difficulty, the disease's rate of
ingly, the program has provisions (or
reproduction and the speed at which
thinks his life is threatened. Of
it travels are options. And, of course, there is SubLogic's
course, there are the usual distrac
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Infocom includes: the Zork trilogy, a
into this cockpit and take off. Nice
fantasy series;
graphics and full flight controls lend
mystery; and Planetfall, a science fic
launch a space station taking into ac
themselves to a true flight of the
tion comedy.
count budget problems, unfavorable
imagination. Solo Flight for the 64
media
from MicroProse and IFR Flight Simu
"what if" simulations.
Simulations
XT
JL. -A-::.; has released two excel
lent simulations
for the 64 called
Project: Space Station and Cell De fense. In Project: Space Station, users
coverage
and bad weather.
tions: the beautiful daughter, a wife the threatening
Other interactive fiction Deadline,
by
a murder
Spinnaker (1 Kendall Square, Cam bridge, MA 02139) has released the
Time pressures overshadow the con
lator for the VIC 20 from Academy
Trillium series, interactive fiction in
struction of the space
Software arc two other flight simula
spired by the novels of science fiction
tors that make excellent gifts.
authors
station and
when completed, a mission must be chosen from studies on air pollution, astronomy projects, moon base con
struction, development of computer
such as Arthur C.
Clarke,
Interactive
Robert Heinlein and Michael Crich-
Fiction
identity of the characters to embark
ton. In these, players assume the
interactive human biology computer
I
programs.
sponding to it in conversational Eng
life after games.
must defend the body against disease
lish. There are no graphics, because
joystick and embark on a new adven
and
caused by
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age, stress, drugs and alcohol. Users
can lead in any direction, limited only
just as much fun.
chip factories in space and a summer
camp for kids. Cell Defense is
In this program,
adverse
conditions
on adventures. Programs like these
certainly offer creativity and intellec
.n
one of the first
interactive
fiction,
the
user
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