FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming

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FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming
Or 'Eeeagh! Alien INVADERS made me a FUGATIVE by starting a WAR OF THE WORLDS on INDEPENDANCE DAY'

FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming
Author(s) L. Ross Raszewski
Publisher(s) n/a
Release date(s) 10-Sep-1999
Authoring system Inform 6
Platform(s) Z-code 5
Language(s) English
License(s) Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects none
Graphics none
Sound/Music none
Ratings
Cruelty scale Merciful

How It Begins

The game begins with an obviously fake Nostradamus quote, which predicts that aliens will be up to no good at the top of a tall construction in France. Strangely enough, this prediction is coming true.

You are a penniless drifter, carrying nothing, who has come to Paris to stop the aliens' scheme, whatever it is. You start at the base of the Eiffel Tower, stairs leading up.

(CAUTION: Some mildly vulgar language.)

Notable Features

Trivia and Comments

  • The opening prologue references several things from popular culture, including the television shows The Fugitive and Quantum Leap.

Versions

Competition release

  • FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming (L. Ross Raszewski as "DorianX"; 10-Sep-1999; Z-code 5).
    • Release 1 / Serial number 990910 / Inform v6.15 Library 6/7
    • Speed-IF 4 entry.
    • Story file: n.z5

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