The Witness is a text adventure in which the player takes control of a police detective working near Los Angeles. The year is 1938, and on this stormy February night a wealthy but frightened man has asked the detective for protection. In spite of his best efforts, a death occurs, and the hero has twelve hours to solve the mystery and try to arrest the killer. If the player thinks there is enough evidence against one or more suspects to convince a jury of their guilt, he can arrest them and conclude the case.

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Alternate Titles

"The Witness: Somebody's going to take the Deep Six!" -- Tag-lined title
"The Witness - An INTERLOGIC Mystery" -- Tag-lined title
"Invitation To Murder" -- Working title

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Setting: Interwar

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Trivia

(From The New Zork Times Vol.3 No.2 Spring 1984)

Some statistics about Witness:

Apparent number of rooms (those seen by the player): 28
Number of rooms: 31 (for various arcane programming reasons, some locations are inaccessible to the player)
Number of different ways to die: 2
Number of words in vocabulary: 711
Number of takeable objects: 18

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This entry was contributed by Brian Hirt (10044), Rola (5791), Slik