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Saigon: The Final Days

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Saigon: The Final Days

Jan 1, 1981

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1.00 average rating based on 2 ratings

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A text adventure by Jyym and Robin Pearson set in the Vietnam War. The player is an escaped American POW lost somewhere in the dense jungle and his only chance for survival is to reach Saigon.
Release Dates
Jan 01, 1981 Full Release (North_America)
Atari 8-bit
1981 Full Release (North_America)
TRS-80
1982 Full Release (North_America)
TRS-80 Color Computer
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scoopings gave Jan 30, 2022
scoopings gave Jan 30, 2022
Lame Concept, Boring Execution
This review is for the Atari 8-bit version

Play: 4/10 Never a fan of the "Look viet cong," "look jacket," "look pocket" etc parts of text adventures, and this one has a lot of them.. I'm probly biased because I wasn't that interested in the concept, and honestly this executed it better than I expected. But I still gave up because I didn't have a drive to solve any of the "puzzles." The amount of times you're expected to "Look"....

Feel: 4/10 Reminds me of my frustrations with settler simulation games, even Oregon Trail that I can't deny I enjoyed, cuz it's like history books that try to act like it was impossible to live on the frontier (even though of course these "frontier" lands had been populated for generations lol). The attempts to make, in this case, imperialist soldiers or, in that case, white settlers as the victims in some brutal world gets tiring. "You, too, can self-victimize as an imperialist soldier!"

Attachment: 0/10 Nope. Wouldn't even recommend it to someone interested in war-themed text adventures. I'm sure better ones will come along that would be better to recommend.