The article mentions the difficulty of playing Suspended for modern players without access to its documentation or the included 'feelies' (a map, tokens of the robots, an in-universe lottery ticket).<p>They are preserved at <a href="http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html" rel="nofollow">http://gallery.guetech.org/suspended/suspended.html</a> for anyone wishing to attempt the game.<p>The game itself is preserved at various abandonware sites, such as at <a href="https://www.myabandonware.com/game/suspended-1nz" rel="nofollow">https://www.myabandonware.com/game/suspended-1nz</a> which seems to have versions for most platforms it was released on.<p>The source code for the game has been recovered and is preserved at <a href="https://github.com/historicalsource/suspended" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/historicalsource/suspended</a> although there is no currently known preserved compiler that can translate this code into the playable .ZIP format ("Z-machine Interpreter Program", not to be confused with the archival format).
I love Infocom games. But I was (and still am) always frustrated by the opacity of the controls.<p>I have no idea what I can type, or do with things. It's difficult to discover your abilities by flailing around.
So I never end up finishing any of them, which is a shame.<p>Would it have been so hard to give a rundown of the vocabulary and parser to players?
This game is one of the unusual experiences referenced in M.C. Frontalot's song "It Is Pitch Dark" (which is all about text-adventure obsession).<p><a href="https://genius.com/1219782" rel="nofollow">https://genius.com/1219782</a>
Wow. I'm a fan of text adventures (sorry, Interactive Fiction) but I never heard of this game. The premise seems intriguing... will have to play it!
The premise to the game is very cool, in fact I’d say it’d be a better alternative than just dying. Just put the body into a state of sustainable long term hibernation and have a link to the brain that allows you to interact with an outside world and lets you do useful things for as long as possible.
<a href="http://monsterfeet.com/grue/" rel="nofollow">http://monsterfeet.com/grue/</a><p>They have reviewed this game and have a spoiler section you can avoid, should you want to play it.<p>Very highly recommended for anyone interested in text adventure games.