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Reruns Again

Author:Neil Sorenson
Genres:Humor>Satire
Adaptation>Screen
Released:1992
Review:

Escape from television! Only by interacting with the characters and environs of four TV shows (parodies of Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Star Trek, and LA Law) can you avoid being doomed to life in reruns. A clever game in conception, but I can't help but feel that it didn't do enough with the material. (For example, most of the Bradys do nothing but stand around being Bradys, without so much as a joke to justify their presence.) Also marred by numerous run-on sentences.

Unlike most AGT games, this does not have a copy of RUN.EXE (the AGT interpreter for MS-DOS) packaged with it. A copy from most other AGT games will do.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
Honorable Mention, Softworks AGT contest 1992
Downloads:
reruns.zip (80.57 KB)
AGT executable (version: 1.3, bundled with MS-DOS runtime)


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