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An exercise in guessing the nouns, November 18, 2020by jlmjlm As is typical for programs on the 8-bit home computers of yore, many corners have to be cut to get an IF game of non-minuscule size to fit within the resource constraints imposed by the hardware. For this game in particular, one of those is that there are no synonyms provided, so one must repeatedly play guess-the-verb and guess-the-noun. Any players should consider this as part of the "cover charge" for playing old IF games that ran on computers with 8K of memory. However, using a singularly inappropriate word for an essential object or action can take this limitation from an expected frustration to a fatal flaw, and unfortunately that's the case here: an object referred to only as an "hypodermic antidote" is named "needle", despite that word not appearing in the game's text anywhere and ST:TOS showing that one of the advances of 23rd century medicine over the present's is the ability to do hypodermic injections without needles. Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Remove vote | Add a comment
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