The Institute (video game)

The Institute

Developer(s)| Jyym Pearson
Robyn Pearson
Publisher(s)| Screenplay
Platform(s)| Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64, TRS-80
Release| 1983
Genre(s)| Interactive fiction (original)
Graphic adventure

The Institute is a 1983 graphic adventure game released for the TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 8-bit family by Screenplay.

## Gameplay

The user navigates their character through a graph of rooms by entering commands with the keyboard: "N", "W", "S", and "E" are used to move respectively north, west, south, and east; simple text commands to interact and investigate objects within the rooms such as "open door" are also used.

The game's protagonist is a mental patient trying to escape from the institute (hence the title). A good deal of the game takes place in drug-induced hallucinations, though in some versions the drug is a "strange powder" that sends you into "dreams".

## External links

* Background from Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe
* Review from Antic Vol. 3 No. 7
* Stephan's Retrocomputing Site (contains solution)

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