In this bizarre text-based mystery, you assume the role of John, a mental patient who is being held against his will in a hellish asylum known only as "The Institute".
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Character
Grave, unpretentious, bleak and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
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“Would a little humor have helped?”
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About the game
- Platforms
- Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, Apple II, TRS-80
- Developer
- Med Systems Software, Med Systems Software
- Publisher
- Screenplay, Med Systems Software
- Released
- December 31, 1981
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- First person, Text
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