Save Princeton

by Jacob Weinstein and Karine Schaefer

1991
Collegiate
TADS 2

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A large, very early TADS game with in-jokes set in Princeton, February 14, 2016

I mainly played this game for historical interest, so I just played it straight through with the walkthrough.

It is a classic 'my crappy university' game, which probably started with The Lurking Horror and has been perpetuated over the years (Christminster was probably the most successful university game, along with Return to Ditch Day). This game resembles the original Ditch Day Drifter, but larger, and with a large number of insufferable in jokes (the game is full of the authors' friends, and talks about how they feel about appearing in the game). Everything is based off of real Princeton locations, and follows the real map fairly accurately.

This game made a relatively large splash in the community at the time (thought not as big as the Unnkulia games), as there were not that many games at all, and this one was large and polished.

And it is polished. I used the walkthrough, but the game seems fair. I can only recommend it to fans of big old school games without much plot.

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