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Border Zone

(Infocom, 1987, Macintosh)

One of the last text adventures ever distributed by Infocom, this was a sign of why this soon would have to be so. The story is divided into three individual mini-stories, making puzzles far easier, and the whole game easily finished in one night. One of the game's puzzles was so lackluster, it only involved looking at the pen in your pocket, which was in fact a secret agent bomb device. Such "puzzles" were a sure sign the text adventure genre was not what it once was, and was instead, a sad disappointment.


Rating : Near Miss.

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