The Second One Hour Comp



GAME: Forum
AUTHOR: Woodfish
PLATFORM: ADRIFT 4 http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgi
SOUND: no
GRAPHICS: no
REVIEWED: 26th July 2003
WALKTHROUGH: http://www.shadowvault.net/wt%20forum.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://www.shadowvault.net/games/forum.taf


A strong contender with anything written by Heal Butcher for weirdest ever Adrift game, “Forum” is about… well, the Adrift forum and what happens when a newbie asks for help and drifters all over the world are abducted as a result. You, as Bob the Newbie, are chosen to save the drifters. With me so far?

I'm not sure where the idea for “Forum” came from (I'm not even sure I want to know) but it’s certainly an interesting and original one that I’d never come across before. You, in the role of Bob the aforementioned Newbie, have to trek around a strange landscape defeating members of the forum who have become evil and in doing so free them from the clutches of the evil one responsible for all carnage, who happens to be… the person who wrote the game. Still with me?

If you can get around the sheer weirdness of “Forum” it’s quite very amusing and witty and contains more than a few decent ideas for a game written in an hour. It isn’t a hard game and is very linear but it certainly made me grin a few times.

7 out of 10



GAME: Dance Fever USA
AUTHOR: Mel S
PLATFORM: ADRIFT 3.9 http://www.adrift.org.uk/cgi/new/adrift.cgi
SOUND: no
GRAPHICS: no
REVIEWED: 26th July 2003
WALKTHROUGH: http://www.shadowvault.net/wt%20dfu.htm
DOWNLOAD: http://www.shadowvault.net/games/dance.taf


Not quite as weird as “Forum” (then again, few things in this world are) but “Dance Fever USA” is still decidedly strange. The storyline is pretty much nonsense – a dance craze has swept the world and people seem to be affected with a desire to dance and dance and… but I'm sure you get the picture. You have to stop it.

This is one seriously corny game that doesn’t miss an opportunity to try its hand at downright tacky humour. That said, it’s also very, very funny in places. Relieving yourself in an alley and retrieving a crowbar from a cat are just a few of the strange things you get up to in attempting to stop the dance craze. The ending was strange and seemed a bit drawn out for my liking but right up to there it was definitely worth playing.

5 out of 10