As a bored tourist in the Big Apple, you discover a time-travel device that lets you witness first-hand the development of the city in four centuries. A well-researched period piece with good wry descriptive prose, rather sad in many places about the passing of old landmarks and the ruthlessness of modernity. Good explorability, although towards the end trekking about and waiting for trains can get to be a chore. The puzzles are mostly (but not entirely) straightforward, but careful examination of scenery is required to obtain equipment. The geography is representative rather than exhaustive - walking north from 14th Street, for example, takes you to 23rd Street. It's easy to lock yourself out of victory, but also easy to predict when it's likely to happen (if not how to avoid it). Features an AGT-style EXITS command.

Rating: *****

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

lostny.egg (1.88 KB)

A list of 'easter eggs' -- 10 responses from the game that players had to try to find in order to win a prize.

lostny14.sit (654.79 KB)

Macintosh executable (version: 1.4)

lostny14.zip (353.73 KB)

TADS executable (version: 1.4, bundled with MS-DOS runtime)

lostny14.gam (424.49 KB)

TADS 2.2 executable (version: 1.4)

lostny.sol (30.40 KB)

solution