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First of all, you’ll notice this isn’t 1990 by SpectreSoft – the game simply can not be found and it is highly likely it was never released. So we move on… Here we have another short game written in the Inform 6 system by Admiral Jota in 2001. This time it was submitted to the Speed-IF 17 competition. I’m playing release 1 of the game. In fact, Admiral Jotter organised Speed-IF 17! The premise for Speed-IF 17: Your game will be set on one or several floors of a thirty-story building in Manhattan. At the beginning of the game, it’s ten in the evening on December 31, 2002. On every floor, the New Year’s bash is going on — the people in their high-rise apartments, the rented-out function halls, even the office workers stuck here late. Fireworks are scheduled to begin over the water promptly at midnight. Unfortunately, the building will be taken over by terrorists at eleven-thirty — they’ve infiltrated the maintenance staff and have been surreptitiously placing bombs in various locations…