Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure
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…
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is an adventure developed by Synergy Inc., released 1 November 1993 on Apple Pippin, FM Towns, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure is an adventure game developed by Synergy Inc. and released in 1993. It is available on Apple Pippin, FM Towns, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
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 lobby, the government's intelligence chief briefs the protagonist on his mission. The protagonist then…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and science fiction.
What it launched against
Gadget: Invention, Travel & Adventure launched on 1 November 1993, within three weeks of Sam & Max Hit the Road and Disney's Aladdin.
Released around the same time: Sam & Max Hit the Road, Disney's Aladdin.
Official trailer
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