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Acid Rain

by Garry Francis profile

2021

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About the Story

You were driving home from the Second National Conference on Acid Rain when you started getting tired. As it was late at night and you were in the middle of nowhere, you pulled over to the side of the road for a bit of shut-eye.

When you wake up, you find that it's dark and dismal outside and raining heavily. You'd better get a move on and get the car under cover. Despite all the protective coating you've applied, acid rain can still make a mess of your duco.


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IFComprehensive

There was a bit of boom in the 1980s in treasure-hunt style text adventures. In addition to the commercial ones (the most famous one being Zork I, but the Infocom game Hollywood Hijinx is squarely in the same category), many games were released as listings in books or magazines. “Acid Rain” is based on one such game, but the author has not just ported it to a modern interpreter. Instead, he’s recreated it based on his notes from playing the original game. The result is a solidly 1980s-style game that nevertheless has a few of its rougher edges smoothed off.
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Mike Russo's ParserComp 2021 Reviews
With Acid Rain we’ve got a puzzle-y adventure that I quite enjoyed. Sure, it’s got some player-unfriendly archaisms, like an inventory limit that adds nothing to the gameplay and a too-tight time limit that required a restart, but there’s definitely pleasure to be had in scratching a familiar itch in a well-designed, well-implemented playground.
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Page Update History

v.13: 07-Jul-2021 23:49 - JTN (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
Changed download links
v.12: 06-Oct-2023 11:22 - Garry Francis
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v.11: 06-Oct-2023 06:58 - Garry Francis
Changed genre, download links
v.10: 12-May-2023 14:56 - Garry Francis
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v.9: 12-May-2023 14:46 - Garry Francis
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v.8: 24-Aug-2021 22:20 - David Welbourn
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v.7: 03-Aug-2021 01:10 - kaemi
Changed external review links
  v.6: 07-Jul-2021 23:49 - Garry Francis
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v.5: 06-Jul-2021 15:55 - Adrian Welcker
Changed external review links
v.4: 03-Jul-2021 17:41 - Dan Fabulich
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v.3: 02-Jul-2021 14:59 - Garry Francis
Changed IFIDs, cover art, forgiveness, author
v.2: 02-Jul-2021 12:35 - Adrian Welcker
Changed version number, development system, description, external review links
v.1: 01-Jul-2021 02:14 - Zape
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