Bureaucracy

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 experience 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.

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Bureaucracy (Apple II E)
Bureaucracy (Mac OS Classic)
Bureaucracy (C128)
Bureaucracy (Atari ST)
Bureaucracy (MS-DOS)
Bureaucracy (Amstrad CPC)