Game 590: Labyrinths (1982)

You have to admire a game that gets right down to business. Labyrinths United StatesProgressive Computer Applications (developer and publisher)Released 1982 for Atari 800Date Started: 10 September 2026Date Ended: 10 September 2026Total Hours: 2Difficulty: Easy (2.0/5), not that it means much in this game, since there's no objective Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at time of posting: (to come later) Any player who has sampled Telengard (1982) or one of the other DND variants knows that the geography of those games is just an illusion; the character can hit (P)ass next to the stairs and receive encounter after encounter. This game does away with the illusion. It's all-text. There is no movement, no sense of any geography. The player enters the dungeon and gets encounter after encounter until he dies. Ads for the game in magazines like Antic and Compute stressed this inherent randomness. "DIFFERENT EVERYTIME [sic] YOU PLAY!" the publisher boasted. I enter a very small office every…