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Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure
Synergy Inc.·1993·
A surreal first-person adventure game set in an unnamed city facing the end of the world. Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is a notable early 1990s CD-ROM title, praised for its melancholic atmosphere and open-ended, emergent narrative design. It has since gone on to influence many visionary filmmakers, game designers, and visual artists.
The game's plot takes place in an unspecified (albeit vaguely Eastern European) nation headed by the dictator Orlovsky. The protagonist is a government agent tasked with discovering the whereabouts of a missing scientist named Horselover Frost. He begins his quest in a third-floor room of a luxury hotel (which is in fact the headquarters of the government's intelligence arm). After collecting his belongings in a suitcase, the protagonist takes an elevator ride to the lobby, during which a boy replaces the case with another identical one containing various spy-related paraphernalia. In the lobb...
Also known as: Gadget: El pasado es el futuro, Gadget: Past as Future
Japan
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure was released on November 1, 1993.
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is available on PC (Microsoft Windows), FM Towns, Apple Pippin, Mac.
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure was developed by Synergy Inc..
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is rated 6 by USK.