Adam '96
Release type: Freeware
Release date: November 17, 1996
Levels: 7
Author: Alan Caudel
Related games: Adam's Birthday Game, The Adam's Birthday Saga Continues, Adam's B-Day 3: The Saga Continues, Adam '98, Adam 98, Adam 99, Adam 2000
The Adam's Birthday series serves as one of the more reliable barometers for its author Alan Caudel's shifting skill and focus as a designer. The yearly cycle helps to chart and lend context to Caudel's work as a whole, offering an uncommon extended insight to a creative process.
Adam '96, as one of the later recoveries from Caudel's early work, bridges a gap in this path, resting between the manic excess of Adam '95 and its contemporaries (Lil' Choklit Donit Man; Mr. Berkel Derkel!) and the calmer elegance of Adam '97.
To reach that level of confidence, we pass through a bridge period informed less by the Tex Avery school of extreme reaction and more by
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Story[edit]
You gotta get the present, etc.
Instructions[edit]
Lightsaber:
- keyboard: left "," / right "."
- joystick: left or right button
Gun:
- keyboard: space bar
- joystick: both buttons
The Rest:
- Ah, you know.
Credits[edit]
Me
Availability[edit]
This game is not known to have been distributed in any form, prior to its addition to the Archive.
Archive History[edit]
On March 14, 2018, Alan Caudel uncovered the long-lost Adam '96, alongside the highly unusual Virtual Apartment.
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