Help Me Remember Space Text Adventure!

This is a weird one, because it's not a game I played as a kid, in fact I only discovered it about a year ago.

I have forgotten what it was called, and with the entire WoS archive to hand, it's like a needle in a haystack!

You are being held prisoner on a spaceship or space station of some kind.

You start off in a cell, and there are laser 'bars' blocking the exit.
These are defeated by picking up a tin mug from a sink and throwing it at the bars.
If you get caught by a guard, you get thrown back in this cell and have to start over.

There are guards, a uniform that can be picked up and worn, and there are color coded floors with an elevator that allows you to move between them.
I think there are color coded pass keys too.
You can visit a laboratory and a workshop, and there's a pistol you can pick up but it's broken.

Does any of this sound familiar?
It's driving me nuts!

Comments

  • Is it not one of the Infocom adventures ?
    Every time I read that the oldest person in the world has died, I have to do a quick check to see it isn't ME..........
  • No, Daren is correct, it's definitely Earthbound.
  • Yes, it's Earthbound, thanks guys.

    You're probably going to chuckle, but for a second I did think of Earthbound, but I assumed I was thinking of the Mother series of games and dismissed it.
  • Gah, too slow, another one I might have been able to get..!

    Quite enjoyed playing this one a while back. One of the few completed text adventures in my lifetime, surprisingly not too difficult.
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