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                    When the sun rose and set in New Mexico
                                        
When I first read about the Infocom [1] game Trinity [2], I found it an
intriguing premise—you encounter five historical nuclear explosions and two
that take place “in the future.” It's considered one of Infocom's best games,
and so unique in its story that it took Jimmy Maher [3] nine articles to
fully review the game:

  1. Trinity [4]
  2. T Plus 5: Bombs in Space [5]
  3. T Plus 4: Bombing Nevada [6]
  4. T Plus 3: Edward Teller and His Superbomb [7]
  5. T Plus 2: The Bomb at the Crossroads [8]
  6. T Plus 1: Bombing Japan [9]
  7. T Plus 0: The Fulcrum of History [10]
  8. T Plus 6: All Prams Lead to the Kensington Gardens [11]
  9. Trinity Postscript: Selling Tragedy [12]

It's not only a review of the game, but it's also a review of the history of
the nuclear bomb (which you experienced when you play the game). It's a shame
that the text adventure, as a genre of computer games, is pretty much history
as even the failures [13] were interesting [14].

And yes, they can even make you cry [15].

[1] http://www.infocom-if.org/company/company.html
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
[3] http://www.filfre.net/about-me/
[4] http://www.filfre.net/2015/01/trinity/
[5] http://www.filfre.net/2015/01/t-plus-5-bombs-in-space/
[6] http://www.filfre.net/2015/01/t-plus-4-bombing-nevada/
[7] http://www.filfre.net/2015/01/t-plus-3-edward-teller-and-his-superbomb/
[8] http://www.filfre.net/2015/02/t-plus-2-the-bomb-at-the-crossroads/
[9] http://www.filfre.net/2015/02/t-plus-1-bombing-japan/
[10] http://www.filfre.net/2015/02/t-plus-0-the-fulcrum-of-history/
[11] http://www.filfre.net/2015/02/t-plus-6-all-roads-lead-to-the-kensington-gardens/
[12] http://www.filfre.net/2015/02/trinity-postscript-selling-tragedy/
[13] http://www.filfre.net/2013/04/infidel/
[14] http://www.filfre.net/2014/04/a-mind-forever-voyaging-part-1-steve-meretzkys-interiors/
[15] http://www.filfre.net/2013/03/planetfall/

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