Escape from the Crazy Place

Surreal Comedy Choice-based

Escape from the Crazy Place
{{{image2}}}
Author(s)	J. J. Guest
Publisher(s)	{{{publisher}}}
Release date(s)	1984/1997/2006/2017
Authoring system	Twine
Platform(s)	{{{platform}}}
Language(s)	English
License(s)	{{{license}}}
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	Cover Art, Illustrations (HTML Version)
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Merciful

How It Begins

You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places including custard-filled caverns, the world's worst Indian restaurant, the planet Venus, and the inside of a cereal packet. You'll meet such strange characters as the peculiar Plugalug, the mysterious Cow of Honour, Rampateuay of the Hills (a prophet who predicts things he's about to do) and the sinister Boss.

Can YOU make it alive through the forest of the Ostrich People? Fathom the mysteries of the marmalade satnav? Survive the mutiny on the 'Milky Way'? Discover why you have ham on the brain, ham on the brain, ham on the ham on the ham on the brain? Can YOU escape from the Crazy Place?

A 90,000 word choice-based game, Escape from the Crazy Place has been in production on and off since it began in manuscript form back in 1984. An interactive round-robin story, it combines the talents of around 20 different authors. Some wrote just a page or two, others wrote dozens.

Versions

HTML versions

• Escape from the Crazy Place (Jason Guest; 1997; HTML).
  • Play it online.

HTML TADS version

• Escape from the Crazy Place (Jason Guest; 2006; TADS 2).
  • LOTECH Comp 2006: The only entry, but disqualified from the competition because it had been previously released on the author's site in HTML format.
  • Download Escape.zip from the IF Archive
  • or download escape.zip from the LOTECH site.

Twine version

• Escape from the Crazy Place (Jason Guest; 2017; TADS 2).
  • Play it online.

Links

General info

• Escape from the Crazy Place - at IFDB.

Reviews

• Escape from the Crazy Place - at SPAG - by Mike Harris, October 2006.