Bureaucracy

Bureaucracy
Game
Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	1987
Credits
Author	Douglas Adams
Publisher	Activision, Infocom
Reception
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (47 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Comedy Surreal
Location	City
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	ZIL
Format	Z-code 4
License	Commercial
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How it begins

An introduction screen tells you (the user) that you have just been hired to a company called "Happitec". You have recently moved because of the job and there seems to be some minor details you must sort out, mainly getting your mail. The objective of the game is therefore to achieve mail ownership. The starting zone of the game is your new home which includes two rooms. You are in the front room which features the front door and the way to the other room of the house. After having completed the first command which makes time pass the door bell rings.

Versions

Infocom releases

Date: 1987

• Bureaucracy (Douglas Adams with the staff of Infocom; publisher: Infocom; 1987; Z-code 4).

Activision releases

Date: Date unknown

• Bureaucracy is included on the following Activision collections:
  • The Lost Treasures of Infocom Volume II
  • The Infocom Collections: The Comedy Collection
  • Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom

Links

General info

• Bureaucracy - at Peter Scheyen's Infocom Homepage.
• Bureaucracy manual in PDF format - at The Infocom Documentation Project.
• Bureaucracy - at Wikipedia.
• Bureaucracy - at MobyGames.
• Bureaucracy - at Infocom Gallery.
• Bureaucracy - at Infocom - The Master Storytellers.
• Bureaucracy - at IFDB

Reviews

• Bureaucracy - at SPAG.

Spoilers

• Bureaucracy - at Graeme Cree's The Infocom Bugs List.
• Let's play Douglas Adams' Bureaucracy - A playthrough of the game with commentary, originally from the Something Awful forums.

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Bureaucracy}}. This will display as Bureaucracy (Douglas Adams; publishers: Activision, Infocom; 1987; ZIL; Z-code).

Date: 1987

Date: Date unknown