Fahrenheit 451
The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come not…
Fahrenheit 451 is an adventure developed by Trillium, released 31 December 1984 on Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Fahrenheit 451 is
Fahrenheit 451 is an adventure game developed by Trillium and released in 1984. It was published by Idealogic S.A.. It is available on Apple II, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, Mac and MSX.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You are Guy Montag, fugitive. Once you wore the symbolic number 451. Once you were a Fireman. Your job in life was clearly defined: to protect man from books. Books with their dangerous knowledge, books with their fact that could be twisted and molded and and used to destroy. Your job in life was to seek out and destroy these books, and hence your allegiance was to the Firemen who wore the sign of the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns: 451. Then you met the girl, Clarisse. For her, books were magical things, to be sought out and remembered, not feared. You began to challenge what you had learned from the Firemen and you became... a threat. You watched in horror as the…
How it plays
It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs.
What it launched against
Fahrenheit 451 launched on 31 December 1984, within three weeks of Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike and Karateka.
Released around the same time: Impossible Mission, Jet Set Willy, 3D Starstrike, Karateka.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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Quick answers
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