Tinseltown Blues

by Chip Hayes

Satire, Travel
2002

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A long, complex game about wandering around a movie studio, May 9, 2016

This game was the first Spring Thing winner. It was the only entrant in its year, but it probably would have won if there were more. This game is one the author worked on for many years.

You play a hopeful hollywood writer, going to deliver your scripts to a producer for evaluation when they are scattered and stolen by a mailboy!

You have to find each of the seven scripts. This is an old, old-school adventure. Timed challenges, complicated machinery with ascii displays, hidden items, leaps of intuition, locks and keys, it has it all.

It also has a lot of Infocom references. There is a movie set that is a faithful reproduction of the Zork house, and quite large. There is a parrot squawking 'Hello sailor', a set for Hades from Zork, and so on.

This is a real treat for puzzle fans, but for everyone else, it could be fun just checking out the map and area and exploring for a while.

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