[HN Gopher] 1983: Suspended
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       1983: Suspended
        
       Author : TheLocehiliosan
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2021-04-01 12:06 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | the_af wrote:
       | Wow. I'm a fan of text adventures (sorry, Interactive Fiction)
       | but I never heard of this game. The premise seems intriguing...
       | will have to play it!
        
       | schoen wrote:
       | This game is one of the unusual experiences referenced in M.C.
       | Frontalot's song "It Is Pitch Dark" (which is all about text-
       | adventure obsession).
       | 
       | https://genius.com/1219782
        
       | tofof wrote:
       | The article mentions the difficulty of playing Suspended for
       | modern players without access to its documentation or the
       | included 'feelies' (a map, tokens of the robots, an in-universe
       | lottery ticket).
       | 
       | They are preserved at
       | http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html for anyone
       | wishing to attempt the game.
       | 
       | The game itself is preserved at various abandonware sites, such
       | as at https://www.myabandonware.com/game/suspended-1nz which
       | seems to have versions for most platforms it was released on.
       | 
       | The source code for the game has been recovered and is preserved
       | at https://github.com/historicalsource/suspended although there
       | is no currently known preserved compiler that can translate this
       | code into the playable .ZIP format ("Z-machine Interpreter
       | Program", not to be confused with the archival format).
        
         | TheLocehiliosan wrote:
         | I can attest to the difficulty in playing without the physical
         | materials/documentation. In my youth I spent so much time
         | playing a pirated copy of this game without getting very far.
         | Later in life I learned some more details that really opened up
         | the game for me.
        
       | makeworld wrote:
       | I thought the title was a joke at first, like it's 1984 when
       | you're banned, but if you're just suspended for a bit then it's
       | 1983.
        
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