Circuit’s Edge

Circuit’s Edge

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Genres

Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Developer

Westwood Associates

Release Date

June 30, 1990 (35 years ago)

Publisher

Infocom

Content Rating

N/A

Circuit’s Edge

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Summary

Circuit’s Edge is a computer game developed by Westwood Associates and released by Infocom in 1989. It is based on George Alec Effinger’s 1987 novel When Gravity Fails. The game is a hybrid interactive fiction/role-playing game; it contains a window of text, a graphic window for depiction of the player’s current location, and various menus and mini-windows for character statistics and other game functions.

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