Midnight Emergency by John H Doolittle Episode 2 of the Adventures in Danger! trilogy 1990

About the Story

Mr and Mrs Graham have gone out to a movie and left you to babysit their daughter, Anna.

Somehow, you have fallen asleep on the living room couch. In your dream, Mr and Mrs Graham came home, found Anna missing and berated you severely (and rightly so). Amid waves of utter humiliation, you awaken suddenly in a cold sweat. You are on the couch and everything seems fine. But is it? You'll soon find out.

This game was originally written by John H Doolittle in Turbo BASIC for PCs circa 1990 and used in his 'Scientific Thinking in Psychology' classes when he was a professor of psychology at California State University, Sacramento.

It was ported to ZBasic by Eric Thornton and released commercially by Critical Thinking Press as game 2 in the 'Adventures in Danger!' trilogy. The Apple II release was in 1992. There may have also been a Macintosh release.

The original author continued to update the game until 1996 and released the Turbo BASIC source code in 2023.

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