Promoted

Baf's Guide

Originally released for Rexx-Adventure, now ported to Inform, this isn't a bad game. It doesn't really have a parser at all--instead, it relies on menus in a way reminiscent of Infocom's Journey, though you generally have a lot more options at any given moment than you had with Journey. You're making your way through the hazardous corridors of your office in order to get promoted; the game has an entertainingly zany approach to the various warring office factions and their various customs. Difficult in spots, even with the menus, but also rather entertaining. Entered in the 1996 competition, but didn't get enough votes to place (presumably because it was only released for the OS/2).

-- Duncan Stevens