Life on Beal Street
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| Life on Beal Street | |
|---|---|
| Game | |
| Main links | |
| Published | 1999 |
| Credits | |
| Author | Ian Finley |
| Reception | |
| Events | |
| Gameplay | |
| Interaction style |  Choice |
| Literary genre |  Romance |
| Location |  City |
| Language | English |
| Cruelty scale | Merciful |
| Accessibility | Colour: none. Graphics: none. Sound: none. |
| Technical details | |
| Authoring system | TADS 2 |
| Format | TADS 2 |
| License | Freeware |
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Notable features
- Written as a joke game.
- Extremely limited interaction. Besides "about" and the standard commands look, save, restore, undo, and quit, at each turn the player can only choose "1" to keep going, "2" to turn back, or "NO" to get an alternative version of what just happened.
Trivia and Comments
- Parodied by Life on Gue Street (Chris Charla as Anonymous; Z-code), which takes place in the Zork universe and is considerably longer.
- This was the second of two games Ian Finley entered in IF Comp 1999. The other game was the much better received Exhibition, which took 5th place.
Versions
Competition entry
Date: 1999
- Life on Beal Street (Ian Finley as Anonymous; 1999; TADS 2).
- IF Comp 1999: 26th place of 37 entries.
- Download beal.gam from the IF Archive
Links
N.B. Many IF Archive games are temporarily unavailable in the UK.
General info
- Life on Beal Street (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
Reviews
- Life on Beal Street - at IF Ratings.
- Review - by Paul O'Brian.
- Review - by Dan Shiovitz.
Date: 1999