MAROONED AGAIN - on PD 54
              (Text adventure game for PC)

                Reviewed by Tom Lorimer

You have crashed your ship on a hostile alien planet. All is not
lost, however. Your scanners have located a deserted alien ship!
Scanners show no life aboard. You figure the crew must have been
killed by hostile native life forms. But the ship is in perfect
condition.

You are acquainted with this particular type of vessel and know
you must find several components to get it to blast off.  Because
of your injuries you also know you would never survive the
take-off. Fortunately, your ship has an extensive cloning section,
and you are able to make several clones of yourself to search
through the alien ship. The clones, of course, have no thoughts of
their own and must be controlled through telepathic link.

Unfortunately, the telepathic link section was also damaged in the
crash. The clones are all functioning, but your link with them is
shaky at best. Upon testing them you discover a few commands in
one or two words such as LOOK, GET CHAIR, N,S,E,W,U,D, (directions
of travel) and you figure you'll discover the rest by trial and
error.

The clones must go aboard the alien vessel and find the components
needed to lift off and go for help. If they fail, you will die a
slow and agonizing death aboard your own ship.  With hope in your
heart, you send the first one out.

The main thing to remember is this: nearly everything you see has
a purpose. Subtle clues are placed all over. Even so, it will take
you days to complete it.

Despite a few small bugs, nothing serious, I feel that Marooned
Again is one of the best Adventure Games I have played for quite a
long while.

Marooned Again is completely logical. Everything you do and
everything you see has a logical and understandable purpose behind
it. Of course, there are a couple of things thrown in to confuse
you ... but at least it's LOGICAL confusion.

Enjoy, and remember: be PATIENT. If you cannot solve it today, you
may wake up with the answer tomorrow.

On second thoughts, go back to sleep. I have spent many a long
sleepless night thinking what the heck to do next.  So, unless it
suddenly comes to me, this game might go down as one of the
unsolved mysteries of 1993.