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Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated…

31 December 1987

Bureaucracy is an adventure developed by Infocom, released 31 December 1987 on Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE and Commodore C64/128/MAX.

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What Bureaucracy is

Bureaucracy is an adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1987. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Bureaucracy is an interactive fiction computer game released by Infocom in 1987, scripted by popular comic science fiction author Douglas Adams. The player is challenged to confront a long and complicated series of bureaucratic hurdles resulting from a recent change of address. Mail isn't being delivered, bank accounts are inaccessible, and nothing is as it should be. The game includes a measure of simulated blood pressure which rises when "frustrating" events happen and lowers after a period of no annoying events. Once a certain blood pressure level is reached, the player suffers an aneurysm and the game ends. While undertaking the seemingly simple task of retrieving misdirected mail, the…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Bureaucracy launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels.

Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.

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When did Bureaucracy come out?
Bureaucracy was released on 31 December 1987 for Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS and Mac.

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