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Dystopian Autocrat wrote:

> FAILSAFE by Jon Ingold
> ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive/games/zcode/FailSafe.z5
>
> Although interesting, the experimental format causes some problems.
> In an attempt to make the game more like a conversation, all game
> verbs (save, restore, quit, undo and restart included) have been
> disabled, which is more than a little annoying, although bearable,
> since the game is short.

Actually, I think QUIT was left in, and it has a particularly nice effect.

