Borrowed Time (video game)

Borrowed Time is a 1985 text adventure game. The storyline is about a detective, who tries to rescue his kidnapped wife. The game was developed by Interplay and published by Activision.

Borrowed Time
Developer(s)Interplay
Publisher(s)Activision
Producer(s)Richard Lehrberg
Designer(s)Brian Fargo
Michael Cranford
Programmer(s)Ayman Adham
Jay Patel
Troy P. Worrell
Bill Heineman
Artist(s)David Lowery
Curt Toumanian
Greg Miller
Platform(s)Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Macintosh, Apple II, Amiga, Atari ST
Release1985
1986 (Amiga, ST)
Genre(s)Text adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Mastertronic republished it as a budget game, renamed Time to Die.[1]

Reception

Info rated Borrowed Time four stars out of five, describing it as "a big step forward in the realm of 'interactive entertainment' ... a tonic to jaded adventurers", and praising the game's graphics, parser, and humor.[2] Compute! wrote that "Activision has created a delightful game environment with the look and feel of those classic hardboiled detective movies and novels".[3] Computer Gaming World's Charles Ardai called Borrowed Time "a superbly cinematic graphic adventure" that was too brief and deserved a sequel.[4] A German reviewer recognized the challenging storyline, the detailed graphics and the comfortable gameplay.[5] He gave Borrowed Time 82 out of 100.[6]

Notes
  1. Ryerson, Don (March 1990). "Time To Buy?". Computer Gaming World (letter). p. 58. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  2. Dunnington, Benn; Brown, Mark R. (December 1985 – January 1986). "C-64/128 Gallery". Info. pp. 4–5, 88–93. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
  3. Bateman, Selby (May 1986). "Borrowed Time". Compute!. p. 60. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  4. Ardai, Charles (June–July 1987). "Titans of the Computer Gaming World / Part Three of Five: Ardai on Activision" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 38. p. 36. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  5. Heinrich Lenhardt: Borrowed Time, Happy Computer, Spiele-Sonderheft 11/1986 (german)
  6. Heinrich Lenhardt: Tatort Computer, Happy Computer 4/1986, p.150f. (german)
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