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Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: January 3, 2000 Current Version: 1.11 License: Freeware Development System: Inform 6 Forgiveness Rating: Merciful Baf's Guide ID: 327 IFID: ZCODE-1-000210-5CCA TUID: qzftg3j8nh5f34i2 |
Awards
Nominee, Best Individual Puzzle - 2000 XYZZY Awards
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Baf's Guide
-- Carl Muckenhoupt
Play This Thing!
9:05 is a tiny game, and everyone interested in interactive fiction should play it at least once.
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Jay Is Games
Besides being very short, one of the especially notable qualities of this game is that it encourages replay. After you've played through the game at least once, you'll understand what I mean by this. An enjoyable and surprising game and just right for a casual game audience.
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Brass Lantern
There's a nice sense of urgency about the opening text, and repeating 'the phone rings' over and over again (it also pops up after the room description) is a neat way of conveying, well, a phone ringing over and over again. I've certainly been in this sort of situation, and I had absolutely no trouble getting under the skin of the PC -- or so I thought. (Iain Merrick).
[...] my first play through the game ended with shock and surprise. If there's an equivalent to being nonplussed when you're sitting at a keyboard, I was it. (Mark Musante)
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SPAG
The game plays smoothly with no real apparent problems [...] In the end, 9:05 is a simple game which could almost be described as puzzle-less one [...] somewhat closer in spirit to Cadre's take on Flowers for Algernon than his other more involved Photopia or I-0.
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Great for beginners and veterans alike, October 20, 2007 Pure, pure, gold, October 3, 2010At first, with it being so short I thought either I'd done something wrong in my playthrough, but then the whole joke dawned on me.
Even on the second (OK, and the third) playthrough there were those superb little nuggets that I'd missed previously that, had I found them, would have made the whole thing soooo obvious (but so much less enjoyable).
A short, but superb romp that made me smile throughout.
An argument for minimalism, November 27, 2010See All 27 Member Reviews
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