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The Worm In Paradise
''The Worm in Paradise'' is the third and final video game in the ''Silicon Dreams'' trilogy, a series of text adventure games in which the player takes the role of Kim Kimberly. It is the sequel to ''Snowball (game), Snowball'' and ''Return to Eden (game), Return to Eden''. ''Worm in Paradise'' takes place generations after the first two games, when the planet Eden has been colonised. The player is an ordinary citizen in Eden's most populous city, Enoch. The game was noteworthy for having significant social commentary relative to other games of the same genre and era. The game drew inspiration from the novel ''1984 (novel), 1984''. Plot A hundred years after the arrival of colonists aboard the ''Snowball 9'', planet Eden has become home to half a billion people. In this paradise managed by robots there is not any crime, taxes, unemployment, or freedom. The population lives in a domed "megapolis", and, perhaps due to the war that occurred during ''Return to Eden'', there is not a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silicon Dreams
''Silicon Dreams'' is a trilogy of interactive fiction games developed by Level 9 Computing during the 1980s. The first game was ''Snowball'', released during 1983, followed a year later by ''Return to Eden'', and then by ''The Worm in Paradise'' during 1985. The next year they were vended together as the first, second and last of the Silicon Dreams. As with most Level 9 games, the trilogy used an interpreted language termed A-code and was usable in all major types of home computer of the time, on either diskette or cassette. Level 9 self-published each game separately, but the compilation was published by Telecomsoft, which sold it in the United States with the tradename Firebird and in Europe with the tradename Rainbird. The trilogy is set in a not too-distant future when humans have started colonising space. For the first two instalments the player has the role of Kim Kimberley, an undercover agent, whose goal in ''Snowball'' is to save the colonist's spacecraft from crashin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |