Bureaucracy

Douglas Adams' Bureaucracy News

Status Line, The, Jan-Jun 1987

Not very long ago, Douglas Adams (who is, as everyone knows, the best-selling author of that zany interactive story The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy™) moved from one apartment in London to another. He dutifully notified everyone of his new address, including his bank. In fact, he personally went to the bank and filled out a change-of-address form. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Computer Entertainer, Apr 1987

BUREAUCRACY (NA/⭐⭐⭐⭐) from Infocom is another bit of inspired zaniness from Douglas Adams, author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." This time the humor is Earthbound, but no less entertaining, as Adams conducts a hilarious tour through the wonderful world of bureaucratic red tape. . . .

Experiencing an Infocom "Marathon of the Minds" Feature

Computer Entertainer, Apr 1987

The average high school student who enjoys interactive fiction would jump at the opportunity to spend a night with a like-minded bunch of kids, all racing to complete an unreleased Infocom game and win prizes. Sixty-three Southern California youngsters recently did just that at the California Museum of Science and Industry. The event was a "Marathon of the Minds," a continuation of an Infocom tradition begun at the Museum of Science in Boston, MA. . . .

Bitten Back... Feature Low-Q

Zzap!64, Jun 1987

DOUGLAS ADAMS is a successful author. His radio series, HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy, formed the basis of a quartet of books that featured Arthur Dent, the only Earthman to survive the destruction of our planet when it got in the way of a planned interstellar by-pass. Mr Adams also worked with Infocom on the eponymous computer game, which collected the 1985 Newsfield Award for Best Text Adventure. . . .

Adams' Universe Still Expanding Feature

Terry Atkinson, Los Angeles Times, The, 13 Jun 1987

Wasn’t it enough that Arthur Dent had to have his house demolished and his planet (Earth) destroyed? Or that he then had to put fish in his ear, listen to Vogon poetry (the third worst in the universe), suffer the complaints of a depressed robot and be fired at by missiles from the planet Magrathea? . . .

Bureaucracy Walkthrough Spoilers

Scorpia, Computer Gaming World, Jun-Jul 1987

Yes, indeed, step right in. It's much more pleasant in here than outside in the middle of summer (but don't worry; if summer is here, can winter be far behind?). Fred is making you an extra-strong one today. You're going to need it. This time around, you're coming up against something terrible, something worse than Krill, Jeearr, Mangar, Exodus and Lagoth Zanta all rolled into one. That's right, you're about to face the ultimate horror, the inescapable nightmare, the bane of all existence: Bureaucracy. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Ervin Bobo, COMPUTE!'s Gazette, Jul 1987

"Students who exchange digital watches with multiple partners increase their chances of contracting bubonic plague by 300%." This quote is from Popular Paranoia magazine, to which you'll probably want to become a subscriber after playing a few rounds of Bureaucracy, Infocom's latest excursion into interactive fiction. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Zzap!64, Jul 1987

Douglas Adams did it with Hitchhikers. The Wiz isn't exactly sure what he did, but the result was one of Infocom's best selling games. Now he's done it again with Bureaucracy. Yup, there's no doubt about it, this game is as tricky as Zork, as devious as HHGTTG, and as frustrating as getting an engaged tone from Directory Enquiries for the 800th time in succession... But it's an exquisite torture, mein Wizardlings, and I must advise all of you with the necessary hard cash (and suitable machinery) to stump up and add it to your collection. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Steve Morgenstern, Family Computing, Aug 1987

You've just gotten a fantastic new job and an appropriately fantastic new home as well. Not only that, your fantastic new employer is about to send you off for two week's training — all expenses paid — in Paris! Wow! All you have to do is take your expense check (it should be in today's mail) over to the bank, grab a bite to eat, take a cab to the airport, and it's off to Paris. . . .

Bureaucracy: More Grief for the Frustrated Review Low-Q

Michael W. Muchmore, PC Magazine, 15 Sep 1987

"Yap, yap, yap" is probably a good approximation of what bureaucratic talk sounds like. It's also what Bongo the bank dog says on the phone in the Murphy's-law world of Bureaucracy, an interactive fiction game from Infocom. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Steve Panak, Analog Computing, Oct 1987

A long, long time ago, on a computer not far enough away, Infocom gave us, the computing public, a game so wild, so off the wall, that it was a preordained bestseller. 'Round about the same time, they also gave us interactive fiction plus and universes so large as to escape the confines of low memory systems. This new product was also greeted warmly and embraced by the public. But now they've gone too far. How can the populace resist a game combining the two? They can't. . . .

Two New Games from Infocom Review

Burt Hochberg, Games, Jan-Feb 1988

Few Infocom games have been as eagerly awaited as Douglas Adams's Bureaucracy. Many interactive fiction fans count Steve Meretzky's Planetfall among their favorites. They will not be disappointed in his sequel, Stationfall. . . .

Bureaucracy Review

Andy Eddy, ST Log, Jul 1988

Everyone, at one point in their life or another, faces the "red tape shuffle," the hideous condition that comes from dealing with big companies and their infernally inefficient ways of doing things. Proof of this malady shows up regularly; blood-boiling examples include having a phone conversation put on hold for a matter of weeks or getting the runaround while trying to straighten out a $1 million computer error -- obviously not in your favor -- on your bank account . . .