enathan1085
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Hello all,
I was wondering if anybody remembered an old old old old mac game from back in the day when a floppy disk was actually a floppy disk. The mac from my childhood was a Apple IIc clicky. The game was titled "Escape from Kazakhstan" or something like that.
'Twas text-based after a fashion. The game started with an image of a jail cell and the words "You are in a jail cell." You could then input commands such as: "walk over to bed", "bang on door", etc. The object of the game was to escape the jail cell, evade capturers, and escape the country. The best (read most infuriating) part was, if you made any mistake at all it resulted in a description of your character dying in some horrible way and then you were back at the first screen with the same welcoming words "You are in a jail cell." No save points, no passwords, nada.
I have thus far completely failed in my attempts to unearth anything at all on said game and was hoping that somebody who frequented this forum could shed some light on this blast from the past. Ideally I would love to be able to, somehow, play the game today without resorting to purchasing a vintage Apple IIc and somehow procuring the floppy again but we shall see. Thanks in advance. Ciao.
I was wondering if anybody remembered an old old old old mac game from back in the day when a floppy disk was actually a floppy disk. The mac from my childhood was a Apple IIc clicky. The game was titled "Escape from Kazakhstan" or something like that.
'Twas text-based after a fashion. The game started with an image of a jail cell and the words "You are in a jail cell." You could then input commands such as: "walk over to bed", "bang on door", etc. The object of the game was to escape the jail cell, evade capturers, and escape the country. The best (read most infuriating) part was, if you made any mistake at all it resulted in a description of your character dying in some horrible way and then you were back at the first screen with the same welcoming words "You are in a jail cell." No save points, no passwords, nada.
I have thus far completely failed in my attempts to unearth anything at all on said game and was hoping that somebody who frequented this forum could shed some light on this blast from the past. Ideally I would love to be able to, somehow, play the game today without resorting to purchasing a vintage Apple IIc and somehow procuring the floppy again but we shall see. Thanks in advance. Ciao.
And when I got my Apple IIc, I got a copy from a classmate of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and I was even more hooked. I also bought Stationfall...or was it PlanetFall? I don't remember anymore. Most of those games during the 80s were made by Infocom.