| The year was 1985. PC games were almost
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| | can use. The only graphics in the game,
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| non existent. The personal computer
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| | if you can call them graphics, occur
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| itself was in its infant stages. The
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| | whenever the aftershocks hit. The screen
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| amount of memory you had in a PC was
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| | shakes a bit.The game, in spite of it
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| about 64K. PC games? Certainly there
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| | being pretty bare bones, was very hard.
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| weren't any PC games back then even worth
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| | The number of puzzles you had to solve
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| playing, not with that kind of memory.
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| | and items you had to get were numerous to
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| Well, actually there was. If you had
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| | say the least. Many times you would have
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| yourself a Radio Shack TRS 80, there was
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| | to backtrack to a place you had been to
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| a game so popular that people who owned
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| | before to pick up an item that only
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| these computers couldn't stop playing it.
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| | appears after you got another item or
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| The game was called "San Francisco
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| | another aftershock hits.For example.
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| Earthquake - 1906".The game was to take
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| | There is one part of the game where you
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| place around the time of the great San
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| | reach a pile of rubble. You search
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| Francisco earthquake of 1906. But the
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| | through it but don't find anything. So
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| game itself was not really about the
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| | you move on. Later on during the game,
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| earthquake. Oh yes, it happens during
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| | another aftershock hits. If you think
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| the game, which only makes things that
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| | enough to go back to the pile of rubble,
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| more difficult, but the main objective is
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| | you will see that it had been disturbed
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| to find your wife who has been
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| | and if you look closely enough you will
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| kidnapped.Played entirely in text mode,
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| | now find an item that you didn't see
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| no graphics, you awake to find a note by
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| | before.You had to really think outside
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| your bedside that your wife has been
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| | the box to play this game. There was no
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| kidnapped. You then receive a phone call
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| | instruction manual and no clue book. For
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| with a ransom demand. Suddenly there is
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| | those of you who are programmers, you can
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| a terrible shaking and it hits. You're
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| | figure out where everything is. The game
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| now in the middle of the worst earthquake
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| | was written in a combination of BASIC and
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| in San Francisco history and your wife
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| | Assembler Language. By printing out the
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| has been kidnapped. What a way to start
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| | source and object files, if you can read
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| the day.The game is played by issuing
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| | this stuff, you can figure out exactly
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| commands to the computer such as look,
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| | the order for every item you need to find
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| get, north, south, east, west (to move
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| | and where they are found.The game was a
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| around) open, close, inventory and a
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| | real challenge. And while it didn't have
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| number of other commands. There is a
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| | all the bells and whistles of the modern
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| very limited help function that basically
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| | day PC games, it was far from boring.
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| gives you the list of commands that you
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