The Warden Game
The Warden Game is a text-adventure style game that helps players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration. Designed by Ed Mead around 1987, while he was incarcerated at the…
The Warden Game is an adventure developed by Ed Mead, released 31 December 1987 on DOS and Web browser.
What The Warden Game is
The Warden Game is an adventure game developed by Ed Mead and released in 1987. It is available on DOS and Web browser.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Warden Game is a text-adventure style game that helps players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration. Designed by Ed Mead around 1987, while he was incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, the game explores power in prison and how individuals exercise it.
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
The Warden Game 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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