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Well hello everyone. I am writing this post to prove that I did not make up the game I talked about on the video game podcast. It did seem a little ridiculous (if you played the game correctly you could re-write history, possibly stop the Titanic from sinking), but it is a real game called Titanic: Adventure Out of Time. I played this epic computer game as a wee little 6th grader. If you sucked at playing the game, you went down with the ship. Needless to say, I went down with the ship a lot. I eventually beat this complex game. I did have to use the cheat book, which you can buy on amazon.com
Here is the concept of the game: As a British secret agent in 1912, your assignment was to recover a stolen book. Simple enough. But, as fate would have it, your mission put you on board the R. M. S. Titanic on her fateful maiden voyage. As an eyewitness to history on the night of April 14, 1912, you were one of the lucky survivors of the catastrophic series of events that would forever lodge Titanic securely in the annals of 20th century lore.
It’s now 1942 and war is raging throughout the world. Although you survived the ordeal of 30 years past, it effectively ended your career as a secret agent. Riddled with guilt, knowing that successful completion of that mission could very well have changed the fate of the world forever and prevented mankind’s bloody 20th century of war, you’ve dreamed of a chance to go back and finish what you left uncompleted three decades earlier.
Now, through a bizarre accident, you’ve been slammed back in time to that very night in 1912. Miraculously, you’ve been given another chance to re-write history — a second opportunity to change events and actually prevent World War I, the Russian Revolution and, possibly, even World War II. Determined to succeed this time, you grasp the chance and begin an investigation on board Titanic in an effort to eliminate your failure of long ago.
What you had to do to win:
The player’s first mission is to locate and retrieve the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which is revealed to have been stolen earlier in the year and is now suspected of being in the possession of Zeitel, a German Oberst (Colonel) who is traveling on the Titanic under the guise of inspecting embassies in the US and Central America. Along with the Colonel is his young protegé named Willie Von Haderlitz. It is revealed that the Colonel has made a deal with an art dealer named Sasha Barbicon to exchange the Rubaiyat for a rare painting, and they each act through an intermediary go-between, a Serbian stowaway named Vlad Demonic. In addition to the Rubaiyat and the painting, the player learns that Willie is a spy for the Russians and has in his possession a notebook with names of top Bolsheviks. The notebook is to be handed over to the Ochrana so that the Communist rebels will be executed, eliminating a threat to the Czar. As well, Sasha is in possession of a diamond necklace that that will finance a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand.
During the mission, the agent also becomes involved in several sub-plots unrelated to the central mission or, for that matter, the winning conditions of the game.
Yeah It was pretty intense.
And now you know. This game really existed. I played it and I conquered it. Boom!
