Library

Moby ID: 135452

Released: 1978 on Mainframe
Credits: 1 person

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 3 players

Genre: Adventure
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Gameplay: Interactive fiction / text adventure
Puzzle elements
Interface: Text parser
Setting: Post-apocalyptic

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

Description

Library is a text adventure written in the Wander system. The player explores a library based on the Widener Library at Harvard University. The setting is post-apocalyptic and the goal like in many early text adventures is to collect treasures while solving puzzles.

Credits (Mainframe version)

Written by

Nat Howard

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MobyGames ID: 135452

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Game added by vedder.

Game added September 30, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.