Software Adventure Games - TADS v1.10 with Ditch Day Drifter



TADS v1.10 with Ditch Day Drifter adventure game cover. Discover and play this classic Michael J. Roberts adventure game from 1991 in the Adventure Game genre.


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Genre: Adventure Game

Production: by Michael J. Roberts

Publication date: 1991



Description:

"Ditch Day Drifter" is a game that takes place on the campus of the fictitiousCalifornia Institute of Technology in the mythical city of Pasadena.
You playthe main character: an undergraduate at Caltech.
As the story opens, you findthat today is Ditch Day, the Caltech tradition in which seniors leave campusfor the day, but not before barring the doors to their rooms with all sorts ofcomplex puzzles and devices called "stacks." Your job is to defeat the stackleft by the senior who lives across the hall from you, in order to get into hisroom and claim whatever bribes the room's owner might have left behind.DITCH runs on several computer systems.
These instructions describe thegeneral operation of the game that is common to all or most of these systems.You may also need to know certain details that are specific to your computer,such as how to install the game on your computer and how to start it, or whichkeys are used for certain functions.
Another file in the DITCH distributionshould provide your system-specific information.