The Institute (video game)
The Institute is a 1983 graphic adventure game released for the TRS-80, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit family by Screenplay.
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| Developer(s) | Jyym Pearson Robyn Pearson |
| Publisher(s) | Screenplay |
| Platform(s) | Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64, TRS-80 |
| Release | 1983 |
| Genre(s) | Interactive fiction (original) Graphic adventure |
Gameplay
The user navigates their character through a graph of rooms by entering commands with the keyboard: "N", "W", "S", and "E" are used to move respectively north, west, south, and east; simple text commands to interact and investigate objects within the rooms such as "open door" are also used.
The game's protagonist is a mental patient trying to escape from the institute (hence the title). A good deal of the game takes place in drug-induced hallucinations, though in some versions the drug is a "strange powder" that sends you into "dreams."
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External links
- Background from Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe
- Review from Antic Vol. 3 No. 7
- Stephan's Retrocomputing Site (contains solution)
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