A fun game involving the interaction of RPG-style magic and modern appliances. As Philip (last name unspecified), your D&D campaign breaks through into reality, and it's up to you to return the neighborhood to normal. Since it was written specifically for the real Philip by someone in his gaming group, it depends highly on knowledge of their particular fictional world, but everything relevant is explained in a book within the game (which probably robs some of the surprises of their impact.) PC internal speaker music plays on death, which can usually (but not always) be anticipated. Recommended for current or former D&D players; others won't get as much out of it. See Tark for another game inspired by the same D&D campaign.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

philip.zip (183.90 KB)

AGT executable (bundled with MS-DOS runtime)

phil-src.zip (56.10 KB)

AGT source code