Upon awakening, you don’t know much. Your name is Mason Powers. You used to work for the CIA. But what has happened in the last days? What case have you been working on? And most important: Why are you locked away in this cold, barren prison cell? Time to find some answers.

In Access Software’s interactive thriller, you dive into the world of the secret services. Travel around Europe, interrogate suspects, try to outwit other spies. As agent Mason Powers, you have to prevent a global disaster and expose a mole inside the “company”. Piece after piece, you regain your memory, remembering the events of that night in which your chief was murdered. You are the suspect. But to prove your innocence, you’ve first got escape from that godforsaken sanatorium they keep you locked in.

Countdown continues Access Software’s then-habit of using digitized actors in its games.

The game contains a time limit -- you have to solve the mystery in 96 hours.

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Alternate Titles

"Countdown: An Interactive Movie of Intrigue, Espionage and Suspense." -- Tag-lined title

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Theme: Amnesia

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User Reviews

96 hours of good, old fashioned detective work	Katakis (37454)
Innovative and suspenseful, although not serious enough in what it tries to be	YID YANG (162399)
Sat on my shelf for years before I finished it	Jeanne (75619)
Solid, if unspecatular, adventure experience	Toka (16)	unrated

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The Press Says

The One	Feb, 1991	84 out of 100	84
Adventure Classic Gaming	Jul 01, 2012		80
Aventura y Cía	Mar 07, 2004		80
Power Play	Apr, 1991	48 out of 100	48

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Trivia

References

On the backside of the game boxes flap, a citation from Lewis Caroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is printed:

"BuT I doN't wanT to go aMonG Mad peoPle," AliCe remarKeD. "OH, YOU caN'T heLp THat," saiD THe CaT. "We'Re aLL MaD HeRe. I'm MaD, YoU'Re MaD."

"How dO You KNow i'M MAD?" saiD AliCe.

"YOu MusT Be," sAid tHE CaT, "oR you wOULdn't Have COme Here."

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by -Chris (7371) on Jul 16, 2000.