Rendezvous with Rama (video game)
{{Short description|1984 video game}}
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{{Infobox VG
|title = Rendezvous with Rama
|image = Rendezvous with Rama Coverart.png
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|developer = Telarium
|publisher = Telarium
|designer = Ron Martinez
|platforms = Apple II, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX2
|released = 1984
|genre = Interactive fiction
|modes = Single-player
}}
Rendezvous with Rama is an interactive fiction{{cite magazine |last=Murphy |first=Jamie |others=Reported by Cristina Garcia |title=Stepping into the Story: Players participate in 'interactive fiction' |magazine=Time |date=May 13, 2013 |volume=125 |number=19 |page=64 |quote=A version of Rendezvous with Rama is available in interactive form on a floppy disk (Telarium $39.95).}} game with graphics published by Telarium, a subsidiary of Spinnaker Software, in 1984. It was developed in cooperation with Arthur C. Clarke and based upon his 1973 science fiction novel Rendezvous with Rama.
Reception
German reviewers recognized the complexity of the storyline and the various possibilities of interaction with non-player characters.Boris Schneider-Johne, Heinrich Lenhardt: Science Fiction-Adventures, Happy Computer 5/1985, p.145ff.
See also
- Fahrenheit 451 (video game)
- Rama, 1996 computer game also based on Clarke's novel
References
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External links
- [http://mocagh.org/loadpage.php?getgame=rama-alt Rendezvous with Rama] at Museum of Computer Adventure Game History by Howard Feldman
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- {{IFDB|id=vt9o59q9ex7u7hp4|title=Rendezvous with Rama}}
{{Arthur C. Clarke}}
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Category:1980s interactive fiction
Category:Adaptations of works by Arthur C. Clarke
Category:Biorobotics in fiction
Category:Interactive fiction based on works
Category:Science fiction video games
Category:Single-player video games
Category:Video games about extraterrestrial life
Category:Video games based on novels
Category:Video games developed in the United States
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