'Attentat'
[CPC] [FRANCE] [MAGAZINE] [1986]
"A bomb will explode in forty-five minutes, you have been warned. This floppy disk will self-destruct in five seconds. The location: an unspecified embassy; we wouldn't be surprised if it were Big Sam's. Dark humor, a touch of irony, or an unintentional nod to the prevailing paranoia? Whatever the reason, Attentat at least has the merit of being topical. This is your lucky break: guarding a deserted embassy, you have only forty-five minutes, in real time, to defuse the device. The adventure itself is nothing special, navigating familiar waters. "Open the door," "take the small key," "take down the painting," "open the freezer," etc. The only original touch: the syntax analyzer, which only understands complete sentences, with articles and verb agreement, please. You can also insult it. He keeps his cool at first, then takes a hard line: a one-minute penalty for each swear word. The graphics are decent, nothing more. If you don't succeed in time, a skeleton of metal rods and peeling concrete appears on the screen. Too late. The international terrorist cabal has won." ~TILT (July 1986, #033), based on machine translation
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Source: TILT, April 1986 (#30) || Abandonware Magazines; ATARI STE