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Dharma Initiative Swan Station Computer Simulator
Author	Hernan Pablo
Filename	dharma.zip
Year	2008
Position	102
Format	ZX Spectrum 16K
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Description	It may pay off to do your homework before playing this nail biting simulation of the Dharma Initiative Swan Station Computer from a recently popular TV series. If you don't know which one, then all may be Lost. The end of the world hangs in the balance and only you can indefinitely prevent this as you have 108 minutes to enter the required string of numbers. The game is rather open ended, meaning once you have entered the numbers you can relive the joy of entering them again, as many times as you wish. Just don't even think of going to bed whilst the game is running though!
Comments	Having not seen the TV program Lost yet, I was in fact quite lost as to what do in this game at first. With hindsight, it's a safe bet that I wouldn't have guessed the correct answer. However, a quick Wikipedia search filled me in on the needed info and I was happily able to complete the game. A good crapness idea was to announce in the accompanying documentation that the player has 108 minutes in which to enter the correct numeric sequence and then completely ignore this time limit in the game itself (as looking at the code reveals)! Also, the game is quite unforgiving of whitespace, so don't press space accidentally or it's goodbye planet Earth.