This game seems like something a bored twelve-year-old wrote in the span of an hour without going back to change anything he had written. It exudes a consistent awfulness that earns it the lowest degree of honor available in this guide. It violates every known principle of game design, with arbitrary deaths and arbitrary puzzles, but that's not all: this game was apparently never debugged. Half the commands simply do not work. The faulty mechanics are complemented by hideous spelling (it took me hours to realize what a "sionide pill" is) and a sense of humor about as sharp as a bale of cotton. The plot: The aliens didn't just laugh at your cardigan, they destroyed it. You have to get a replacement before Mom finds out. I really suggest that you try this game, if only to see how vile a game can be.

Rating: *

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

cardigan.zip (118.11 KB)

AGT executable (bundled with MS-DOS runtime)

aliens.zip (31.08 KB)

AGT source code (See if you can fix it!), solution

aliens.sol (1.97 KB)

solution