Bureaucracy

created and published by Infocom in 1987, running on Atari ST
type: adventure
genre: Humorous, Interactive fiction
perspective: other
player options: single player
languages: eng
4.8/5

Description

A hilarious interactive fiction by Douglas Adams (Author of The Hichhicker's Guide to the Galaxy series of books) based on a real incident in Adam's life triggered by bank's bureaucracy. As the bank was featured in this game, they eventually decided to issue a written apology to Douglas Adams, but sent it to his old address.

The entire game does not deviate from the theme of bureaucracy. This includes the installation process, feelies, and packaging which denotes the probable lack of the buyer's compliance with the licensing agreement. Also in on the packaging are customer reviews complaining about the game's quirky compatibility with ProDOS, error ridden feelies, unrelated instruction manual, false in-game hints, added time and difficulty of getting the game through customs outside of the USA, errors in printing, difficulty in opening the packaging, inability to register the product which actually required additional payment, and how the game doesn't make any sense. All complaints are true. The game notably does not prominently post a difficulty level; see the spoiler below.
Difficulty Level: | Junior | Introductory | Standard |>>ADVANCED<<| Expert |


Requires 520ST or newer, 512KB RAM, keyboard. 1 Player. Supports a printer.

(Zerothis) - # 2006

Technical specs

display: text

Authors / Staff

author

Douglas Adams (author)

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External reviews (2) - average: 95%

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Atari ST User 5-52uk171987-0710/10100%
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C&VG (Computer & Video Games) 011-084uk691987-079/1090%
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