Drive-In

aka: Cruisin
Moby ID: 36295
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Old software (where adult text adventures are concerned, perhaps second only to Softporn Adventure!) proves to be a gateway to what was a nostalgic experience even then, the heterosexual rite of passage: a night of heavy petting and perhaps "getting to third base" in a parked car at the local drive-in movie theatre. The order of the day here is pacing yourself, gradually building your girlfriend's ardour before taking it to the back seat and freeing yourselves of some of that cumbersome clothing. Oh, say! Is that my hand? How did that get there?

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"Drive-In" port by
AGT port ("Cruisin") by
  • Stark

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Average score: 2.0 out of 5 (based on 5 ratings with 1 reviews)

An early example of a PC game of a sexual nature

The Good
The game has fairly decent help/hints throughout the game to help you get it on so to speak. The theme is certainly unusual for its time & certainly holds your attention for a short while, just to test it out. Certainly pays to get a solution on the net, & play it through using that. The interface is clear & does its job.

The Bad
The parser is poor & doesn't seem to understand anything much. There is also little to do outside, though you do need to explore the area to get certain things to help you in your quest. Despite this being a sexual conquest, unless you press the right buttons, so to speak, your interaction with Andrea (your date) is limited. To complete this game you would have to be on a similar wavelength to the author.

The Bottom Line
You have been set up on a blind date by your pal Arnie with a girl named Andrea, & your target is to go all the way in this very early PC text adventure. This is similar in a way to Softporn Adventure, the originator for Leisure Suit Larry, though no where near as good. This is one of these games people might look at because of its theme & historic nature, but will soon lose interest due to the annoying parser, & move on to other things. There were two similar versions of this theme ported over years later called Passion Pit, & Cruisin, but I have no idea what they are like.

DOS · by zorkman (132) · 2015

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Version differences

Though largely they are so thoroughly cloned that one port's walkthrough can be used to solve the others, there are some superficial differences between the three games: In Drive-In, your pal Arnie sets you up on a date at a giant monster movie with Andrea, while in Cruisin it's Joe who sent you to a cowboy movie with Debbie. In Passion Pit, your friend Mark directs you to "one of those crazy Canadian mad-slasher movies, with some looney wearing athletic headgear running around in the rain doing in horny teenagers with household appliances"... with a lady whose name and clothing particulars, weakly spurring replay, are randomized at every play.

Perhaps the most significant difference is Cruisin's abstracting out the extra-vehicular activities to focus on the main attraction (for shame! How else can you do the responsible thing and make your purchase from the condom machine in the men's room? -- a step, it should be noted, missing from most more-idealized erotic simulations made since by people with a far better sense of the human cost of unprotected sex than this game's original author in 1982.)

Also it should be noted that Cruisin, and Cruisin alone, requires for its completion the use of the notorious non-verb FEELUNDER.

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Game added by Pseudo_Intellectual.

Additional contributors: Sciere, Patrick Bregger.

Game added September 25, 2008. Last modified February 22, 2023.