External Links


bigd-src.zip
(Compressed with ZIP. Free Unzip tools are available for most systems at www.info-zip.org.)
Play Online via archive.org
Play this game in your Web browser.

Have you played this game?

You can rate this game, record that you've played it, or put it on your wish list after you log in.

Playlists and Wishlists

RSS Feeds

New member reviews
Updates to external links
All updates to this page

Betty Carlson's Big Date

by Betty Carlson

Slice of life
1989

Game Details

Off-Site Reviews

SPAG
Betty Carlson's Big Date is in essence Zork 1 transferred to a suburban setting. The player goes on a scavenger hunt for items which much all be brought to a specific location in order to win. [...] The problem with the game is that it just isn't very interesting. Grab a few items, wrestle with the parser a little, and that's it. There is little story, and very few item descriptions.
See the full review

SynTax
Despite being programmed some time in the eighties with what I think was the very first version of AGT (1.16), Big Date has aged very well. In comparison with other ported games of a similar vintage (e.g. "African Adventure") Big Date looks marvellous; and it would be grossly unfair to compare it to any recently written text games in TADS and Inform. So if you play Big Date accept it for what it is - a fairly good example of what the early versions of AGT could produce.
See the full review

Page Update History

  v.3: 23-Jan-2020 12:43 - Lance Campbell (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
Changed publication date, download links
v.2: 20-Mar-2013 05:25 - Edward Lacey
Changed genre, external review links
v.1: 29-Sep-2007 20:49 - IFDB
Created page