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The Prisoner is a 1980 Apple II computer game produced by Edu-Ware. The game was loosely based upon the 1960s television series The Prisoner. A video game developer is a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates computer or video games. ...
David Mullich (born 1958, in Burbank, California) is a game producer and designer best known for creating the cult classic 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, producing the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developing many games in the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise. ...
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The game was reportedly not officially licensed (although its packaging used the same logo as the series), so a number of changes had to be made to distance the game from a few of the more recognizable Prisoner elements. The game's designer, David Mullich, incorporated elements of Franz Kafka's The Castle into the game, in which the players assumed the role of a character referred to as # (the "number sign" in the United States and Canada). # wakes up on The Island, and explores the 20 homes, shops and service buildings there, trying to find clues as to how to escape. David Mullich (born 1958, in Burbank, California) is a game producer and designer best known for creating the cult classic 1980 adventure game The Prisoner, producing the 1995 adaptation I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, and developing many games in the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise. ...
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The player is given a three-digit number, which signifies #'s reasons for resigning. The game then attempts at numerous times to trick the player into revealing the number.
The first game utilized several different graphic styles. The game was presented in a "top-down" view mode, with abstract representations of the different homes and businesses, while the player is represented by the # sign. Several segments of the game make use of all-text screens with limited animations (as much as the Apple was able to execute with text); other segments of the game used the Apple's low-resolution and high-resolution graphics modes.
Each of the 20 buildings offer different gameplay experiences (and some of the buildings disappear periodically). Some of the major locations include the Town Hall where the player spends some time running The Island in a fashion very similar to (but long predating) Sim City; the Caretaker's home where # carries on an ELIZA-style conversation with the leader of the Island (during which it is possible to nearly replicate the "Where am I?"/"In the Village" dialogue from the opening of most Prisoner episodes); a Church where a similar ELIZA-type conversation occurs; a Hospital where # is tortured into revealing the number; a Carnival; and a movie theater where a film based upon "Pop Goes the Weasel" plays over-and-over and where # might encounter members of the conspiracy to overthrow the Island. A SimCity 4 high-rise SimCity is a real-time strategy/simulation computer game (or software toy). It is game developer Maxis flagship product. ...
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At any point during these various scenarios, the game might try to trick the player into revealing the three-digit number. One of the most nefarious of these tricks was a simulated game crash which included the error message "Syntax error in line ###" where the line number was the player's resignation code. The significance of this is that this was a commonly seen error message in the Apple II's BASIC programming language; out of pure habit, the next step most users would take at this point would be to investigate the erroneous line to try and correct the error, using the command "List ###" where ### once again is the line number. Typing the game's three-digit code at any time resulted in the game being lost, and that included typing the line into the BASIC command as, unknown to the player, the game was still running. Ironically, as the game was difficult to beat, being able to list the program from within the game was one way to ultimately solve and win the game by the means of reading and analyzing the program and deducing a solution. BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of high-level programming languages. ...
In addition, if the player ever hits (by accident or on purpose) the escape key, the message "Such thoughts are punishable" appears on screen and the game returns # to the starting point in The Castle (though the game itself does not restart). The Esc key is a key labeled Esc or Escape that is used to generate the ASCII Escape character, the character code traditionally used to initiate an escape sequence. ...
Considered unique among games of this sort, The Prisoner was reportedly used as a training tool for Central Intelligence Agency agents. CIA redirects here. ...
In 1982, Edu-Ware released a sequel, Prisoner 2, with color and improved graphics (all high-resolution now). Released near the end of the Apple II's dominance of home computers, it was not as widely successful as the first game.(dubious assertion—see talk page) 1982 1982 in games 1981 in video gaming 1983 in video gaming Notable events of 1982 in computer and video games. ...
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