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Cliff Diver, Investigator for Hire: Crime to the Ninth Power

Author:Patrick Farley
Genre:Mystery
Released:1990
License:Shareware
Review:

You play Cliff, a hard-boiled private eye trapped in a tall building that's about to be blown up. A very lengthy introduction gives you the largely irrelevant details of the case, after which you must descend through nine self-contained and linearly-arranged floors to win. Somewhat silly, with no real mystery solving necessary. Mostly relatively easy, but there are a few sticking points. Where this game really succeeds is in the descriptive text, which is done in the form of a chatty, rambling monologue by Cliff, with as many half-completed anecdotes as pertinent details.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
1st place, Softworks AGT contest 1990
Downloads:
cliff.zip (121.04 KB)
AGT executable (bundled with MS-DOS runtime)
cliff.zip (121.04 KB)
AGT source code (version: 1.5, bundled with MS-DOS runtime)
cliff.sol (1.18 KB)
solution
cliffpop.zip (67.00 KB)
pop-up hints


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