Vacation Gone Awry -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Author(s): Johan Berntsson, Fredrik Ramsberg, and Staffan Friberg Genre: Seasonal/Espionage/Science Fiction Website: http://vacation.ramsberg.net Language: en First Publication Date: 1988 License: Freeware Forgiveness Rating: Polite Rating: 2.0 (based on 1 rating) ABOUT THE STORY Waking up at your holiday cabin in Germany, you discover that your entire family is missing. You must figure out what happened to them. EXTERNAL LINKS Vacation.z5 Requires a Z-Code interpreter[1] Vacation.zip Contains an exe which installs Windows Frotz and the game. You can then start the game from the start menu. vac_awry.txt Solution. Note: based on an older release of the game. Not quite accurate anymore. Source code EDITORIAL REVIEWS SPAG Feels fairly retro, but not unpleasantly so. > I must acknowledge that Vacation Gone Awry got my attention right away -- > but not with the cleverness of its premise or with a nifty hook. No, what > grabbed me was the copyright notice, which described the game as "copyright > (c) 1988-2002." Not many works of any kind are fourteen years in the making, > and IF has a sufficiently short shelf life that putting that much time into > an IF game is worthy of note. More to the point, though, the world of IF > changed more than a little between 1988 and 2002, and I wondered just how > retro Vacation Gone Awry would feel. The short answer: fairly. But not > unpleasantly so. IF-Review A Wry Awry > In the end, Vacation struck the proper balance between atmosphere, puzzles, > and writing. Released in the latter days of Infocom when it was originally > written, it might have been a contender with the commercial game developers > of the day. Released today it may not forge new paths on the IF-frontier, > but could be an instant classic nonetheless. It is well worth the play. REFERENCES [1]