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From: forbes@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (Scott Forbes)
Subject: Re: Portal by Activision...
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Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 15:40:59 GMT
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+-- blasi@seagull.escs writes:
| 	I remember in the good ol' days playing a game called Portal on
| my IBM-compatible. It came on 3 5 1/4" disks and the premise was that
| you were a space explorer come home to find the planet empty. All the
| infrastructure was there, but no people.

About 1987, if I remember my dates correctly -- I was playing it on a
Macintosh, and I still have the original diskettes.  Interested?

It was one of the "you can't lose" type of IF games -- eventually you
would have won the game if you just pressed all the buttons at random.
But it was an interesting way to tell a story.

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Scott Forbes				AT&T Network Wireless Systems
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