Asylum (Screenplay)

Release Date calendar
January 2, 1985
Platform joystick
MS-DOS
Game Type type
Released
Max Players players
1
Overview

Asylum II was released in 1982. It was later enhanced with bitmapped graphics, color, and improved descriptions, and released simply as Asylum in for the Atari 8-bit family in 1983, and Commodore 64 and IBM PC in 1985. The diagnosis: adventure syndrome leading to ultimate madness. The treatment: a long, long holiday in a mental institution. This graphical adventure game (with a real-time element), places the player in a padded cell, just one of thousands of rooms in the labyrinthine asylum. The time is 9:30 PM and the only objective is to escape by 5:30 AM - no easy feat, considering the building's insane layout, the many loony inmates, the staff of wardens, doctors and shrinks (who possess a sadistic streak and a wealth of terrifying treatment methods), and a multitude of morbidly humorous ways to die. Asylum's game world is depicted in 3D graphics from a first-person view and is navigated using single keystrokes for movement. All other interaction is carried out by means of a text parser, which supports a vocabulary of 250 words and understands more-or-less complete, natural sentences e.g. "get everything on the bed except the card." A built-in hint system and save feature are also available.

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Cooperative

No

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Not Rated

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