Spoof text adventure based on pulp detective novels like "The BIg Sleep" and "Mike Hammer."
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Character
Unpretentious, cool, ironic and nostalgic.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Where do you stand?
Answer first; then see how everyone, and your circle, split.
“Is the nostalgia doing the heavy lifting?”
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“Does the irony keep it from meaning anything?”
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“Is it funnier than it is smart?”
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A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
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About the game
- Platforms
- Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC
- Developer
- Delta 4 Software
- Publisher
- Piranha
- Released
- December 31, 1987
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Text
Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
S.M.A.S.H.E.D. 198780% alikeBoth unpretentious, ironic, cool.
Randal's Monday 201476% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, comic.
La Isla de lo Mono 200674% alikeBoth unpretentious, ironic, cool.
Both unpretentious, nostalgic, cool.
Ceville 200972% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, ironic.
Inhumane 198571% alikeBoth ironic, cool, nostalgic.- PataNoir 201170% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, ironic.
Both unpretentious, cool, ironic.
The Cheap Detective 197863% alikeFilm · Both unpretentious, ironic, cool; this one is more relentless.
See How They Run 202258% alikeFilm · Both nostalgic, cool, ironic.
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