MAROON
        (A PC Text Adventure Game on Syntax PD 520)

                Reviewed by Tom Lorimer

The adventure begins in the Hospital room of the Spacecraft USS
Ranger. You have just awakened from suspended animation to find
yourself alone on the Spacecraft. You must move around the ship
searching for clues as to what happened and how you may get out of
this situation. On searching the ship, you find out that you are
on a collision course with a Meteor and have only a limited amount
of time to escape from the situation.  To make matters worse,
there is no facility to save and restore the game, so every time
you think that you are winning ... Bang! The bloody Meteor hits
you and you have to start right back at the beginning of the game.
I don't normally map a game but when you cannot save your position
and you are running against the clock, then mapping is definitely
recommended. Especially if you are like me and get very frustrated
when coming close to the end of a game and then suddenly being
returned to the MS DOS Prompt because the time had run out.

The game itself is quite straightforward, it has only a handful of
objects to worry about and apart from one Alien and a rusted
Robot, there is nothing else to worry about.

Once that you have completed the game, I think that you could do
it again in less than 10 minutes. I wouldn't be surprised if you
got more excitement out of trying to finish the game in as few
moves as possible, rather than playing it in the first place. So,
to sum it up, it's a good game for a novice player of text games
or if you are an expert then it will pass the time for you while
waiting on the kettle to boil.







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