🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

The cyclops says "Mmm Mmm. I love hot peppers! But oh, could I use a drink. Perhaps I could drink the blood of that thing." From the gleam in his eye, it could be surmised that you are "that thing".

-- Zork I

Factoid of the day

In 1992, former implementers Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn teamed up to found video game company Blank, Berlyn & Co., eventually renamed to Eidetic and then to Bend Studio after being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment. The company initially produced games for the Apple Newton, but later pivoted to computer and console games such as Busby 3D and Syphon Filter.

*What happens next is up to you.*
Dec 1984

Invisiclues

Starcross

For Your Amusement

(after you have finished the game)

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

Have you ever...

...touched the Starcross controls after the course was set?
...taken the space suit off in space?
...untied your safety line while floating in space?
...set R, theta, or phi once you arrived at the Artifact (or while on the way)?
...said HELLO to the Starcross computer, or asked it to kill you, or given something to it?
...watched the docking of the Starcross with the Artifact while floating in space?
...tried dropping anything or jumping while on the outer surface of the Artifact?
...shot the mechanical mouse, or watched it try to enter the Warren or climb the tree?
...tried climbing down the hole in the Garage?
...stepped on a disk while carrying the other, or put one disk on top of the other?
...looked out the view port of the Weasel's ship (at the Green Dock)?
...tried wearing the Alien space suit?
...tried talking to the Weasels or their Chief?
...tried pointing at or shooting the Alien Chief's wife or child?
...tried giving the tattered space suit to the Chief's wife?
...dropped anything in the Warren?
...given anything to the Rat-ants?
...tried shooting yourself, something you were carrying, or the ray gun itself with the ray gun?
...put other rods into the ray gun before firing?
...tried flying from the tree?
...tried jumping while in one of the bubbles?
...been in the inner cylinder when the lights brightened for "day" or dimmed for "night"?