Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy

Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy
Game
Main links	Play onlineDownload IFDB IF Archive
Published	1998
Credits
Author	Dan Shiovitz
Reception
Events	Speed-IF 2 Participant
IFDB rating	2.5 out of 5 (11 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Comedy Horror
Location	City
Language	English
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	TADS 2
Format	TADS 2
License	Freeware
IFID	TADS2-A812F700E27D750834536E9695AD0056
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Note: This article's name is a truncated form of this game's very long title, which is, in full:
Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without having your parents inspect it first because there are SICKOS out there who will put RAZOR BLADES in it and you will CUT YOUR MOUTH and GET A POISONED INFECTION and DIE, all from eating your candy early. So don't do that.

How it begins

You might be anyone, carrying nothing, somewhere on a very foggy street in New York City. It's Hallowe'en night, and you want to get to Neil deMause's apartment, but all you can see in this fog is a jack-o-lantern in the middle of the street to the north.

Notable features

Some in-jokes:
- The phrase "Lost in New York" in the intro is a joking reference to Lost New York (Neil deMause; 1996; TADS 2), which was often mistakenly called Lost in New York.
- At one point, the game calls you "J Random Protagonist". Compare with AFGNCAAP.
- The phrase "wooden wood" is a reference to Detective (Matt Barringer; 1993; AGT).

Trivia and Comments

This game was the first Speed-IF game written in TADS.

Versions

Speed-IF entry

Date: 1998

Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy without having your parents inspect it first because there are SICKOS out there who will put RAZOR BLADES in it and you will CUT YOUR MOUTH and GET A POISONED INFECTION and DIE, all from eating your candy early. So don't do that. (Dan Shiovitz; 1998; TADS 2).
- IFID: TADS2-A812F700E27D750834536E9695AD0056
  IFID links: IFDB.
- Speed-IF 2 entry.
- Room count: 8.
- Download SpeedIF02.zip from the IF Archive - The entire collection of games from Speed-IF 2. The story file for this game is speed.gam.

Links

N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.

General info

Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy (archived) - at Baf's Guide.

Reviews

Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy - at IF Ratings.

Spoilers

Note: To refer to this game from another page, you can type {{game citation|Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy}}. This will display as Kids, don't eat your Halloween candy (Dan Shiovitz; 1998; TADS 2).

Date: 1998