Borrowed Time (video game)

Borrowed Time
Developer(s) Interplay
Publisher(s) Activision
Platform(s)

Release date(s) 1985
Genre(s) Point-and-click adventure game
Mode(s) Single-player

Borrowed Time is a 1985 point-and-click adventure game. The storyline is about a detective, who tries to rescue his kidnapped wife. The game was developed by Interplay and published by Activision.

Mastertronic republished it as a budget game, renamed Time to Die.[1]

Reception

Compute! praised Borrowed Time, writing that "Activision has created a delightful game environment with the look and feel of those classic hardboiled detective movies and novels".[2] Computer Gaming World called it "a superbly cinematic graphic adventure" that was too brief and deserved a sequel.[3] A German reviewer recognized the challenging storyline, the detailed graphics and the comfortable gameplay.[4] He gave Borrowed Time 82 out of 100.[5]

Notes

  1. Ryerson, Don (March 1990). "Time To Buy?". Computer Gaming World (letter). p. 58. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  2. Bateman, Selby (May 1986). "Borrowed Time". Compute!. p. 60. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  3. Ardai, Charles (June–July 1987). "Titans of the Computer Gaming World / Part Three of Five: Ardai on Activision" (PDF). Computer Gaming World. No. 38. p. 36. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  4. Heinrich Lenhardt: Borrowed Time, Happy Computer, Spiele-Sonderheft 11/1986 (german)
  5. Heinrich Lenhardt: Tatort Computer, Happy Computer 4/1986, p.150f. (german)

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