The Institute (video game)

This article is about the 1983 graphic adventure game. For other uses, see The Institute.
The Institute
Developer(s) Jyym Pearson,
Robyn Pearson
Publisher(s) Screenplay
Platform(s) C64,
Atari 8-bit
Release date(s) 1983
Genre(s) Text adventure (original release),
Graphic adventure

The Institute is a 1983 graphic adventure game released for the TRS-80, Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit by Screenplay.

Gameplay

The game's interface was typical of illustrated text adventures. The user navigated their character through a graph of rooms by entering commands with the keyboard: "N", "W", "S", and "E" are used to move respectively north, west, south, and east; simple text commands to interact and investigate objects within the rooms such as "open door" are also used.

The game's protagonist is a mental patient trying to escape from the institute (hence the title). A good deal of the game takes place in drug-induced hallucinations, though in some versions the drug is a "strange powder" that sends you into "dreams".


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