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A Dudley Dilemma

Author:Lane Barrow
Genre:Collegiate
Released:1988
Review:

A game set at Harvard, with an engagingly cartoony sense of exaggeration. Contains a T. S. Eliot scene, two mazes, puzzles based on wordplay, puzzles based on trivia, and a few special-purpose verbs you'll have to figure out (like "borrow", a verb only applicable to books at a library.) Starts off linear, but broadens a lot once you're past a certain point. The goal is unclear until very near the end. The enhanced version contains background music and occasional photographic illustrations.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
1st place, Softworks AGT contest 1988
Downloads:
dudley.zip (135.12 KB)
AGT executable (bundled with MS-DOS runtime), solution
dudley2.zip (767.45 KB)
AGT executable (version: 2.0, optional graphics, music, bundled with MS-DOS runtime), solution
dudley.sit.hqx (266.35 KB)
AGT executable (version: 1.2, bundled with Mac OS runtime)
dudley_s.zip (46.25 KB)
AGT source code
dudley.sol (10.79 KB)
solution


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