LASH

LASH
Game

Main links	Play online IFDB
Published	2000
Credits
Author	Paul O'Brian
Reception
Events	XYZZY Awards 2000 Finalist: Best Game, Best Individual PC, Best Setting, Best Story
IFDB rating	4 out of 5 (44 ratings)
Gameplay
Interaction style	Parser
Literary genres	Drama Science fiction
Location	Farm
Language	English
IFDB play time	2 hours 45 minutes
Accessibility	Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none.
Technical details
Authoring system	Inform 6
Format	Z-code 8
License	Freeware
IFID	ZCODE-11-000806-E571
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How it begins

You have been approved to use a humanoid robot to explore a site in the radioactive ruins of a home near what was once Macon, Georgia. You will connect to your salvage robot via a Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup. You have a fairly extensive set of files from the North American Salvage Corporation to bring you up to speed about the site and your robot, and you have a command prompt waiting for you to connect and begin exploring.

Notable features

The player and the protagonist are distinct from one another, and the protagonist is aware that it is being controlled by another. The protagonist speaks of itself in the first person, and when it does refer to the player (as when responding to the command X ME), it refers to the player in the second person.

Versions

Release 11

Date: 2000

LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; 2000; Z-code 8).
- IFID: ZCODE-11-000806-E571
  IFID links: IFDB
- XYZZY Awards 2000: Finalist for Best Game, Best Individual PC, Best Setting, Best Story.

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