The Institute
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Developer(s) | Jyym Pearson, Robyn Pearson |
Publisher(s) | Screenplay |
Platform(s) | C64, Atari 8-bit |
Release date | 1983 |
Genre(s) | Text adventure (original release), Graphic adventure |
Input methods | Keyboard |
The Institute is a 1983 graphic adventure game released for the TRS-80, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit by Screenplay.
[edit] 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.