Insanity
Insanity (1990) is an ASCII PC game from 1990, released by New Era Software. Playing as a small face darting around a vast maze of hyphens, stars, and punctuations, evading enemies and answering riddles from…
Insanity is a puzzle, released 31 December 1990 on DOS.
What Insanity is
Insanity was released in 1990. It was published by Wizard Games. It is available on DOS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Insanity (1990) is an ASCII PC game from 1990, released by New Era Software. Playing as a small face darting around a vast maze of hyphens, stars, and punctuations, evading enemies and answering riddles from such odd interlocutors as "The Chocolate Fiend," Insanity is an off-kilter low-budget maze escape title, riddled with a dry British humor synonymous with its era.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Insanity launched on 31 December 1990, within three weeks of Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound and Colorado.
Released around the same time: Sengoku, A-Train, Spellbound, Colorado.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Quick answers
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