Starship Columbus
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Starship Columbus is a text only text adventure in which the player is a young person aboard the titular space ship. Columbus is humanity's first attempt to reach the stars. It is a generation ship and the player was born there. Due to lack of resources the authority aboard Columbus has decided that upon reaching adulthood every person must pass a test to determine if he/she is suited to be a Columbus citizen. Those who fail are given a choice: either death by laser beam or exile in the abandoned corridors. The player have failed the test and when the game starts he/she stands before the laser but the choice of exile is still a possibility.
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The game features no scoring, since the author was of the opinion that "Scoring promotes the idea of an adventure as a puzzle to be solved, rather than a story to be lived and enjoyed.".
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Game added by Tomas Pettersson.
Game added November 25, 2016. Last modified February 22, 2023.