Играем в "A Mind Forever Voyaging"

[vak]

Первая политическая игра. И, наверное, последняя. Переносит вас на 10/20/30/40/50 лет вперёд и показывает, как меняется америка в результате рейганомики. Затея вызвала ограниченный интерес прессы, но коммерческого успеха не имела.

Обзор: a-mind-forever-voyaging-part-1-steve-meretzkys-interiors

Карта: screenshot_a_mind_forever_voyaging_6.jpg

Скачиваем, запускаем:

$ wget https://eblong.com/infocom/gamefiles/amfv-r79-s851122.z4
$ frotz amfv-r79-s851122.z4

"Tomorrow never yet
On any human being rose or set."
-- William Marsden

You "hear" a message coming in on the official message line: "PRISM? Perelman
here. The psych tests have all checked out at 100%, which means that you've
recovered from the, ah, awakening without any trauma or other serious effects.
We'll be ready to begin the simulation soon. By the way, your piece is in the
current issue of Dakota Online."

A MIND FOREVER VOYAGING
Infocom interactive fiction - a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1985 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
A MIND FOREVER VOYAGING is a trademark of Infocom, Inc.
Release 79 / Serial number 851122

You have entered Communications Mode. The following locations are equipped with
communication outlets:
PRISM Project Control Center (PPCC)
Research Center Rooftop (RCRO)
Dr. Perelman's Office (PEOF)
PRISM Facility Cafeteria (PCAF)
Maintenance Core (MACO)
World News Network Feed (WNNF)
To activate a specific outlet, submit the associated code.

>ppcc

PRISM Project Control Center
You see a large, well-organized room filled with banks of terminals and similar
equipment. Your aural receptors pick up the buzz of many conversations.

>rcro

Research Center Rooftop
It is a dark, cloudy night. The roof is splotchily lit by harsh spotlights.
Beyond the edge of the roof, the only thing you can see is Rockvil, glowing with
visible and infrared light on the northern horizon.
There is no one in sight.

>peof

Dr. Perelman's Office
This is the office of your creator, Dr. Abraham Perelman. It is cluttered and
disorganized. Overstuffed bookshelves line the room. Perelman's desk is covered
with a number of items, including a decoder, a map of the city, a ball-point
pen, and a printout of a magazine article.
Dr. Perelman is sitting at his desk, working.

>pcaf

PRISM Facility Cafeteria
From this communication outlet, located in an upper corner of this high-
ceilinged room, you can see most of the huge PRISM Facility dining hall. The
tables below you are occupied by a handful of diners. Through the tall glass
windows of the cafeteria you can see the well-manicured lawns, lit by powerful
floodlights, that surround the Facility.

>maco

Maintenance Core
This is the access area where maintenance workers can service the machinery that
makes up the bulk of your physical presence. The room is immaculately clean and
well lit. As you swivel your receptors, you can see the air conditioning unit
that cools your processors, the library unit, several rows of memory banks, a
neatly organized bin of spare parts, and vents, noisily sucking away the zeeron
fumes produced by the machinery.

>wnnf

World News Network Feed
Your visual and audio circuits are now hooked directly to the programming of the
World News Network:

"We asked Ms. Linda Carr of Seattle to compare AquaFarm's Sudo Shrimp to the
real thing." Ms. Carr points to one of two bowls. "This is the real one. Nothing
tastes like real shrimp." A man, from off-screen, reveals a card in front of
that bowl. "You've just picked the AquaFarm Sudo Shrimp!" he says. "How do you
feel about artificial shrimp now?" "Incredible! I can't believe I've been paying
for real shrimp when I could've been buying AquaFarm instead!"

>_ (и так далее)

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

О какие ужасы. Как бы это держаться подальше от этой вселенной.

[vak]

Да уж. Однако человек старался, огромную игру накатал.

Как ни странно, перечень предсказанных неприятностей, приписанных в игре политике республиканцев, мы нынче имеем при вполне себе демократах.

The death of local newspapers; cities with contaminated drinking water from underregulated utilities; a deliberately hamstrung postal service; politicians who reject facts as fake and declare the press the enemy; overly aggressive airport security measures; extremists occupying government buildings; routine mass shootings; a constant backdrop of police brutality—the list of parallels to today’s world, many of which were once science fiction, is profoundly disturbing to compile.

[juan_gandhi]

Да похоже, изменений пока не видать в системе.

[dijifi]

Гениально. death and taxes всё от рейганистов.