Re: Prisoner 2

["Laser Dog" <GSauer@mycolumbus.rr.com>]

Back when SoftSide magazine was offering the code (you had to copy it yourself) we
opted for the monthly disk. One of the disks (along with the code) was the
"Prisoner". Is this the same game? It has all the stuff that the old series on TV
alluded to; very strange. We still have all the disks and the code.

Mary

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"Robert Gomez" <rwgomez@hotTHIS-IS-ANTI-SPAM-TEXTmail.com> wrote in message
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> I loved this game as a kid and I have it and its original packaging
> here in my office. The game was very clever in the way in which it
> knowingly plays with the fact that it is a computer game. At one point
> it even threatens to initialise itself if you don't do something
> correctly. At times it feels like every puzzle in the game has no real
> solution and they are there just to trick and confuse the player.
>
> The makers of the game had a deal where, if you solved it, you could
> send in a card with some key info about the end-game and they would
> send you a poster. I "solved" the game by somehow getting to an
> applesoft prompt, typing CATALOG, and just running random files until
> I found the final "level" program. I sent in for the poster and
> eventually got it [it has since been thrown away :( ], but it was an
> image of a faceless figure punching out of a computer monitor.
>
> Technically, I guess one could say my solution was cheating, but in a
> sense it wasn't. There were times in the game where it would trick you
> into typing your resignation number by exiting to an applesoft prompt
> with an error message "SYNTAX ERROR IN 123". I would type "LIST 123"
> not realising 123 was my resignation code until it was too late. The
> game was just inviting you to hack in to it to beat the system. Very
> abstract and in the spirit of the TV show upon which it was based.
>
> -R
>
>
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 07:57:58 -0500, "Mike S. Nowostawsky"
> <mikenowo@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> >I found an old Apple game called Prisoner2 but never could finish it. Anyone
> >ever hear of it or see any hints for it? (It was based on the old Prisoner
> >TV show.)
>