WARDIAL: Retro War Terminal

By MATTHEW MALHAM on AppTrack Ninja.

Dial into a 1983 war computer

SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, AN OLD COMPUTER IS STILL LISTENING. WARDIAL is a work of interactive fiction: a 1983 bedroom, a homebrew terminal, and a phone number that answers with a carrier tone. Log on, meet a war-planning machine with a strange sense of humor, and talk your way into its game library. THE FICTION • A wardial montage with real modem chatter — busy signals, wrong numbers, and one carrier • A logon puzzle solved the 1983 way: research, patience, and an old backdoor • A machine that types, speaks, and remembers you between calls THE GAMES • GLOBAL THERMONUCLEAR WAR — set your posture, …

Categories: Games, Entertainment, Adventure, Simulation

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