Initial release date 1981 | ||
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Platforms Apple II, Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80 Developers Jyym Pearson, Med Systems Software, Robyn Pearson Publishers Med Systems Software, Screenplay Genres Interactive fiction, Graphic adventure game Similar The Mask of the Sun, Infidel, The Hitchhiker's Guide to t, Borrowed Time | ||
The Institute is a 1983 graphic adventure game released for the TRS-80, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit by Screenplay.
Gameplay
The game's interface was typical of illustrated text adventures. The user navigated their character through a graph of rooms by entering commands with the keyboard: "N", "W", "S", and "E" are used to move respectively north, west, south, and east; simple text commands to interact and investigate objects within the rooms such as "open door" are also used.
The game's protagonist is a mental patient trying to escape from the institute (hence the title). A good deal of the game takes place in drug-induced hallucinations, though in some versions the drug is a "strange powder" that sends you into "dreams".
References
The Institute (video game) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA