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When you talk about interactive
fiction the first name that usually comes to mind is Infocom who released
a lot of great titles back when these titles were very popular. The lurking
horror is the one and only horror game they released though. You play the
part of a student at GUE tech university who's just gone through a snowstorm
trying to get into the computer room so you can finish the termpaper scheduled
for tomorrow. Everything goes wrong however as the campus network trashes
your files and while trying to find out what happened you come across bizzarre
things happening inside the campus like sacrifices and horrible creatures.
Can you escape from this nightmare alive and then finish your term paper
before it's too late.
Anyone remotely with infocom games or even interactive fiction should feel
right at home with this game. Commands can be typed in and will be executed
if the parser understands you intention, which is part of the difficulty
for every interactive fiction title. You start the game behind your computer
screen but soon the files are scrambled and the only one who can take a
better look is the hacker sitting next to you who won't help unless you
provide him with something tasty. Things soon go bad as you're trying to
get to the alchemy lab which is where the problems originated from according
to the hacker. The campus is large but many exits are blocked because of
the snowstorm which traps you inside a much smaller space and as if that
wasn't enough you are faced with plenty of dangers from creatures and other
hazards. Death can be at every corner as just turning off your flashlight
or not having one can lead to disaster so be prepared at all times. The
entire game is filled with subtle horror and just reading some of the descriptions
gives you an eery feel which is incredible.
The lurking horror was one of the last textonly games that infocom released
as later ones had graphics incorperated or were not textbased at all. The
amiga and atari st versions had sound effects which sometimes had great
effect, you can't underestimate the sound of a creepy door slowly opening
at just the right moment. As most infocom games the writing in this one
is excellent and there are some specific things that I liked about it like
the fact that the computer you are using uses a graphical interface since
you have to click on certain things to get them to work. Anyone interested
in interactive fiction should have this game in their collection so get
it now if you haven't got it yet.
Overal rating: 8.5/10
Erde Kaiser
Lurking horror, the was released for several different systems here are some notes:
| Amiga |
Released
in 1987.
This along with the ST version are the only ones with sound effects. |
| DOS |
Released
in 1987. |
| Others |
These
versions are not available.
Amstrad CPC released in 1987.
Apple released in 1987.
Atari 8-bit released in 1987.
Commodore 64 released in 1987. |
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Date added |
May-23-2008 10:55 |
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Lurking horror, the |
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Developer |
Infocom
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Publisher |
Infocom
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First released |
1987 |
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Genre |
Interactive Fiction
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Download |
Commodore Amiga, filesize: 611 Kb
MS-DOS, filesize: 120 Kb
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Manual |
Download manual for Lurking horror, the
, filesize: 4631 Kb
The zip contains the entire manual in pdf format and student id-card. |
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