Aldebaran III

CRPG Adventures, by Nathan P. Mahney
Aldebaran III is a sci-fi game, possibly the first text adventure in that genre.
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The scores above total 19, which doubled gives a Final Rating of 38 for Aldebaran III. That puts it dead level with Castle, which was more innovative, but weaker in the storytelling, and riddled with bugs. It sounds like a fair assessment to me.
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All the Adventures, by Jason Dyer
The first Wander game I played, Castle (original version 1974, current version 1978-ish) felt a bit conventional; without the oddness of the parser it’s not obvious it’s a “side branch” in the history of adventures. This is not the case for Aldebaran III.
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Aldebaran III is hard to play because it demands actions from the players out of a possibility space that is too large. The ambitions for character interaction got overextended.
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The overall impression is one of failed ambition. While I appreciated the humor and ideas of Aldebaran III, but I can also understand why it fell into obscurity.
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