Beyond the Titanic

Moby ID: 924

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In this mid-'80s text adventure, the player finds themselves a passenger on the doomed Titanic and must find some way to save themself before the ship crashes.

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Average score: 60% (based on 1 ratings)

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Average score: 3.0 out of 5 (based on 7 ratings with 1 reviews)

Epic text-based RPG from the Titanic to underneath the ocean to the moon...

The Good
I loved it. I played it when I was 11 or 12 on my IBM pc.

The Bad
Realists may take issue with the fact that the Titanic's rowboats were massive, and one lone person would not have the strength to lower one into the ocean, much less row it away from the sinking ship. In the game, the ship simply sinks, whereas in reality the ship began to sink from the stern, broke in half, and finished sinking, causing huge waves and casualties to people who had already evacuated in rowboats. Also, geologists may take issue with the premise of an under-ocean cavern, since any existing under-ocean cavern would quickly be flooded with ocean water, rendering it useless to adventurers.

The Bottom Line
It starts out with your character being on the Titanic. The ship sinks, and you end up (after a few restored games) in the ocean on a rowboat. A whirpool sucks you under, and you end up in a maze of caves under the ocean floor. You then encounter an alien ship, and later an alien on the moon.

DOS · by Robert Greene (2) · 2004

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FCB

This game doesn't work properly on modern operating systems, because it uses FCB, File Control Blocks, which is a way of handling files taken from the CP/M family of operating systems, the predecessors of MS-DOS. This 'feature' became obsolete in 1983, with the release of MS-DOS 2.0.

Freeware release

Beyond the Titanic and Supernova were both released as freeware in 1998 by Apogee, around the same time as James Cameron's movie Titanic was making waves in cinemas.

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At the easternmost point of the Titanic, the rear of the ship, players can find a crate with a message on the side, reading "Miller was lost here.", likely referring to Scott Miller, the game's creator.

Information also contributed by Agent 5, Kartanym and Slawomir Kuczera

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Game added by Derrick 'Knight' Steele.

Additional contributors: Macs Black, Patrick Bregger.

Game added February 27, 2000. Last modified September 17, 2023.