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Time Machine Series
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- 71 feature instances
- 38 referencing feature instances
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If you're looking for the classic novel by H. G. Wells, see The Time Machine.Time Machine is a series of educational Gamebooks, published by Bantam Books in 1984-1989. Unlike many other works of this genre, the books only have one ending, reached usually by trial-and-error, although a lot of major choices let you consult a sheet of clues in the back of the book.The premise is that the player is tasked by some unknown authority to travel to the past in order to unravel a historical mystery. Following a strict set of time-travel rules, the protagonist finds themself skipping back and forth through several centuries of history, braving dangers and somehow always coming across famous historical figures. | |
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Dropped link to Pirates: Not a Feature - UNKNOWN | |
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Pirates | |
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DBTropes | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: Used to escape an Aztec guard to avoid fate of a Human Sacrifice, by persuading him to look outside at a supposed earthquake so that you can time-travel out of your prison. Not that it will help you if you've ended up in that paragraph. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: The cover depicts the alien who's only revealed at the end. | |
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Unwinnable by Design | |
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Unwinnable by Design: Some books offer you a few items in the beginning, and you have to choose one to take. Usually, choosing the wrong one will get you stuck halfway through. | |
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Can't Take Anything with You | |
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Can't Take Anything with You: Leaving items from a future epoch behind is one of the things forbidden by the "time travel rules". | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Dimetrodon, from the Permian, is shown living much later, in the Triassic. And Deinonychus, from the Early Cretaceous, as shown living in the Late Cretaceous. | |
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Kid Hero | |
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Kid Hero: The protagonist. The exact age is unclear, but seems to be somewhere around 13, with characters you meet sometimes commenting something like why you're not in class. Which doesn't stop him from people occasionally treating him as someone older for sake of the plot; for instance, he can end up becoming a full-fledged astronaut. | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous | |
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In the Past, Everyone Will Be Famous: Your time machine apparently has a mind of its own and a thing for depositing you just at the right time and place. | |
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Changed My Jumper | |
| Time Machine Series / int_2c161076 | comment |
Changed My Jumper: Deconstructed. One possible decision has you jump to New England around the time of the Salem Witch Trials. Since you're dressed in clothing from around the time of the Spanish Inquisition, you not only stick out like a sore thumb; you also get accused of being a witch. | |
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Undead Tax Exemption | |
| Time Machine Series / int_2d407620 | comment |
Undead Tax Exemption: Very noticeable in this setting—your address is explicitly said to be years out of date, and you're probably long dead in that era anyway, yet you're able to be enrolled into an elite academy with no problems. | |
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Space Pirates | |
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Space Pirates: Their crew made up of cyborgs with a secret base on the Moon. | |
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Kid Detective | |
| Time Machine Series / int_31e2ad94 | comment |
Kid Detective: The protagonist becomes one of these as it is the mission to help Scotland Yard solve the aformentioned case. Later on, you meet another Scotland Yard operative, revealed to be a female and not much older than the protagonist! | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Who transports you into Another Dimension against your will. | |
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Fortune Teller | |
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Fortune Teller: Old, blind, but oddly knowledgeable black woman who gives you cryptic hints (and is one of the few persons to apparently know about your time travel; or at least she knows you're a great traveller.) | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The solution has you fulfilling the mission by finding a dinosaur tooth from a nearby carcass. However, you see a freshly hatched baby dinosaur nearby poking around its dead mother; the text tells you that it will not survive long. | |
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Spoiler Cover | |
| Time Machine Series / int_40d15d7a | comment |
Spoiler Cover: The plot of the book is finding out the source of mysterious signals from Saturn. At the end, it turns out it was a crashed alien spaceship. The pilot is still living in suspended animation and the protagonist wakes him up. Except the cover for the book shows the alien in all his glory, though, admittedly, until the end you're likely to not realize that it was something from the actual book and not just a random, sci-fi themed picture. | |
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God Guise | |
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God Guise: The protagonist, after ending up in a hut in an African village, accidentally ends up wearing a panther skin. The fearful tribesmen take him for a panther-bodied supernatural being. However, as soon as the hero is alone with the tribe's shaman, he takes off his disguise. The shaman has a good laugh, and admits he was fooled for a second. Then he sends the hero on his way, promising not to blow his cover in front of the tribe. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
| Time Machine Series / int_4f3c14ca | comment |
Go Mad from the Isolation: The pilot from Concepcion after being alone for a long time. | |
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Great White Hunter | |
| Time Machine Series / int_53034c21 | comment |
Great White Hunter: Sir Mortimer P. Quimby III. Subverted - this particular hunter is content merely to track down the animal and aim his rifle without actually shooting, solely for the satisfaction of outwitting the beast. | |
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Time Travel Escape | |
| Time Machine Series / int_55eaf38d | comment |
Time Travel Escape: Specifically happens when you visit Robespierre. While trying to escape, you run right into a closet and jump in time. One of the rules of time travel at the start of each book warns you to not disappear in a way that startles people or makes them suspicious. The text even acknowledges that everyone will be in for a shock when they open the closet. | |
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Artistic License – History | |
| Time Machine Series / int_56515a39 | comment |
The Polish cover for Mystery of the Atlantis deserves a special mention: it claims that the Olympic games featured in the book are the first Olympic games (something that isn't in the book)... and this claim on the cover is accompanied by a huge headline stating "it's the year 400 BC", while Olympic games actually started at least two centuries earlier! | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
| Time Machine Series / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Humans fear cyborgs. It's meant to be shown as intolerance, but, interestingly, pretty much all cyborgs you meet on your way are in fact evil. They even form a terrorist organization, C.O.W. (Cyborgs Overrunning the World). | |
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Never Smile at a Crocodile | |
| Time Machine Series / int_59a9605d | comment |
Never Smile at a Crocodile: The protagonist ends up in the Florida swamps at one point, and while exploring along with an Indian boy they end up attacked by alligators. The boy escapes, while the protagonist time-travels his way out of there. | |
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Air-Vent Passageway | |
| Time Machine Series / int_5b19cc1b | comment |
Air-Vent Passageway: Used to escape from the nasty Space Pirates. | |
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Kangaroo Court | |
| Time Machine Series / int_5d3e7c6 | comment |
Kangaroo Court: Invoked; if you're not carrying the correct item at one point, your character is arrested as an enemy of the French Revolution. You demand a fair trial and your captors respond that you will get a fair one...and then you'll most likely be guillotined. | |
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Kleptomaniac Hero | |
| Time Machine Series / int_5e7c0ab7 | comment |
Kleptomaniac Hero: Averted. The text specifically instructs you that you are not to steal the musket that is the object of your mission or to otherwise change history to obtain it. | |
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Plot Hole | |
| Time Machine Series / int_6331ba26 | comment |
Plot Hole: Sometimes, if you take a specific path, the protagonist will end up knowing things he shouldn't. | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
| Time Machine Series / int_6375f746 | comment |
Drill Sergeant Nasty: You run into one of these when you train to be an astronaut. If you screw up, you end up reassigned to train elsewhere under an intelligent dolphin. Who's even nastier. | |
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Raptor Attack | |
| Time Machine Series / int_695efde3 | comment |
Raptor Attack: Deinonychus appears again, and this time, in a surprisingly forward-thinking move for dinosaur media of 1988, it's got a coating of feathers. | |
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Covers Always Lie | |
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Covers Always Lie: At least in the Polish edition, the back covers sometimes feature a situation from the book and hint that you will have two choices in that situation (and that if you choose wrong, you'll end up stuck in a time loop). Most of the time, it turns out that when this part comes in the book, you don't actually have the choices presented by the cover. The Polish cover for Mystery of the Atlantis deserves a special mention: it claims that the Olympic games featured in the book are the first Olympic games (something that isn't in the book)... and this claim on the cover is accompanied by a huge headline stating "it's the year 400 BC", while Olympic games actually started at least two centuries earlier! In general the books often featured some lurid scene of a menacing person or animal on the cover, looking as if they're attacking the player. Considering this is an edutainment series where the reader's character can't die, this does overplay how action-packed the books usually are. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Buala Matari". What's it mean, and why is Stanley called that on his tomb? | |
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Out-of-Character Alert | |
| Time Machine Series / int_777baed3 | comment |
Out-of-Character Alert: If you try and tell a suspicious city guard that you are a Scyth, he will promptly quiz you on a piece of Scythian culture (since he is a Scyth himself.) You fail, at which point he decides you're a runaway slave. | |
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Fetch Quest | |
| Time Machine Series / int_7e02bded | comment |
Fetch Quest: A few of the books actually require you to bring back a certain item as proof that you completed your mission. For example, in American Revolutionary, you had to bring back the musket of the individual who fired the first shot of the Revolutionary War, and in Last of the Dinosaurs, you had to obtain a dinosaur tooth as proof that you did find the last of the dinosaurs. | |
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Time Machine | |
| Time Machine Series / int_7fe8b5b5 | comment |
Time Machine: Gee, ya think? | |
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Blind Alley | |
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Blind Alley: Used to escape an angry royalist blacksmith. | |
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Slave Galley | |
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Slave Galley: You can temporarily become part of this. | |
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Made a Slave | |
| Time Machine Series / int_8437cb10 | comment |
Made a Slave: You become a Saxon's farmhand. | |
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Riddle Me This | |
| Time Machine Series / int_8510238b | comment |
Riddle Me This: Subverted. When given a cryptic answer about the necklace's location, you have to interpret the "riddle" literally. If you try to be smart and go for the metaphorical meaning, you'll just end up in trouble. | |
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Psychic Powers | |
| Time Machine Series / int_874176be | comment |
Psychic Powers: Several mutants with a multitude of powers, living in a wildlife preserve. Their powers range from telepathy through future sight to teleportation. | |
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United Nations Is a Superpower | |
| Time Machine Series / int_8c4b72dd | comment |
United Nations Is a Superpower: And an One World Order, though benevolent. | |
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Apocalypse How | |
| Time Machine Series / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: You get to witness the Cretaceous mass extinction, which is a class 4. | |
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Red-plica Baron | |
| Time Machine Series / int_9518ba73 | comment |
Red-plica Baron: The last book in the series, World War I Flying Ace, asks the reader to find out who shot down the Red Baron and take a photograph to prove the answer. | |
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Cyborg | |
| Time Machine Series / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborgs: Quite a lot of them, and some consider themselves superior to mundane humans. | |
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Second-Person Narration | |
| Time Machine Series / int_9af977f4 | comment |
Second-Person Narration: Also usual for a gamebook. | |
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Time Travel | |
| Time Machine Series / int_9d6427ec | comment |
Time Travel: Why, yes, it tends to come up. | |
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Sapient Cetaceans | |
| Time Machine Series / int_a246aed6 | comment |
Sapient Cetaceans: Telepathic dolphin officers, to boot. | |
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MacGuffin | |
| Time Machine Series / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: The necklace, natch. | |
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Hint System | |
| Time Machine Series / int_aa07733b | comment |
Hint System: The last page contains hints that help you in choosing the right path on some pages. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
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Alas, Poor Villain: A T-rex slowly starving in the aftermath of the meteorite fall is a rather pitiful sight, even if it tried to eat you previously. | |
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Future Imperfect | |
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Future Imperfect: Though not with the future; it is stated that the tale of Atlantis is an exaggeration of a tale about a destructive volcano explosion near Crete, which caused the downfall of Cretan civilization. | |
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P.O.V. Cam | |
| Time Machine Series / int_ad7a381d | comment |
P.O.V. Cam: All the illustrations are from the protagonist's point of view. | |
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Inventory Management Puzzle | |
| Time Machine Series / int_afd68598 | comment |
Inventory Management Puzzle: So, you can take a tiny compass... a tiny lockpick... OR a huge unwieldy scary mask, but only ONE of these. Strangely, this is often broken by the fact that if you choose the WRONG one, you are stuck when it comes to that point in the book. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
| Time Machine Series / int_aff1ee2e | comment |
Small Reference Pools: Implied in-universe. At one point, you come upon an American soldier who suspects you to be a Mexican spy (this being the Mexican–American War), and demands you correctly name the president and the general of the American army. The protagonist says "Abraham Lincoln" and "Ulysses Grant", the two names any schoolboy vaguely associates with that time period. This gets him into trouble — the correct names are the more obscure James Polk and Zachary Taylor. | |
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Feathered Fiend | |
| Time Machine Series / int_b42e16fb | comment |
Feathered Fiend: In a Hilarious in Hindsight way for a book published in the late 1980s, the Deinonychus is coated in feathers. | |
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"Groundhog Day" Loop | |
| Time Machine Series / int_b5ac90ac | comment |
"Groundhog Day" Loop: Supposedly, if you break the time travel rules, you risk being trapped in one of these. In practice, an easier way to end up in one is to take the wrong inventory item at the beginning. Since bad choices make you re-read pages you've read already, the protagonist technically falls into a few short loops (with two or three iterations, tops) on his every adventure. (Since some of them involve arduous weeks- or even months-long trips, it's probably not pleasant...) | |
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Robot Dog | |
| Time Machine Series / int_bb44af57 | comment |
Robot Dog: Protecting the mansion of an important senator. It can be switched from ferocious guard dog mode to a lovable, face-licking pooch mode. | |
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1.0 | |
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Time-Travelers Are Spies | |
| Time Machine Series / int_c5910d80 | comment |
Time-Travelers Are Spies: Commonly happens to you, such as being accused of being a Mexican spy in the American-Mexican war when you fail to correctly name the American president and general. | |
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Time Machine Series / int_c5910d80 | |
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Human Sacrifice | |
| Time Machine Series / int_c66cb5a9 | comment |
Human Sacrifice: Almost done to you by Aztec priests (who else in that era and location?) | |
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1.0 | |
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| Time Machine Series / int_cd3ebc8e | type |
What Year Is This? | |
| Time Machine Series / int_cd3ebc8e | comment |
What Year Is This?: Not only that, but the protagonist also tends to be surprisingly oblivious about pretty much everything about the era where he's going. Rarely does this get him anything worse than a weird look. | |
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An Arm and a Leg | |
| Time Machine Series / int_d028e0da | comment |
An Arm and a Leg: Of the deliberate type; early on, you meet a man with a stub where his hand should be. Depending on where you go, you can jump back to an earlier time where the man is revealed to be a wanted cutpurse and one of the constables arresting him mentions that the cutpurse's hand will be cut off as punishment. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
| Time Machine Series / int_d243518d | comment |
In Spite of a Nail: On one hand, the rules forbid you from changing history; on the other hand, the protagonist tends to save random people's lives without a thought, even if they would die without his being there. | |
| Time Machine Series / int_d243518d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Futureshadowing | |
| Time Machine Series / int_dc8ecfda | comment |
Futureshadowing: The very beginning of the book has you meet a man who mentions meeting you before, and is talking about things you'll do much later (from your perspective), while time-travelling into the past. Strangely, it's possible to finish the adventure without ever actually doing the things the man mentions you doing... | |
| Time Machine Series / int_dc8ecfda | featureApplicability |
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Veganopia | |
| Time Machine Series / int_dff189b9 | comment |
Veganopia: No meat to be seen around, just vegan food. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
| Time Machine Series / int_e563bf09 | comment |
Insistent Terminology: Do not call Henry Stanley "captain". Or else he will... well... chastise you mildly. | |
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Big Creepy-Crawlies | |
| Time Machine Series / int_eb4086e3 | comment |
Big Creepy-Crawlies: You meet some impressively large dragonflies in the Triassic period. | |
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The X of Y | |
| Time Machine Series / int_eb8856 | comment |
The X of Y: A lot of the titles. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Time Machine Series / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Jim Teal, a young sailor whose emnity you accidentally earn in the past... late in the book (damn time travel), and who subsequently bullies you the entire time you're his crewmate. | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
| Time Machine Series / int_eb8f64a6 | comment |
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: You find a purse full of coins at one point and upon finding a constable to turn the purse over, the owner of the purse mistakenly identifies you as the thief, leading you to flee. | |
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Atlantis | |
| Time Machine Series / int_ee19033d | comment |
Atlantis: But not really. It's just Crete. | |
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Present Tense Narrative | |
| Time Machine Series / int_fcbb72d9 | comment |
Present Tense Narrative: As usual in a gamebook. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Besides famous historical figures of Rome, the text talks a lot about social classes in Rome and other details. In fact, they even get the costuming right; while initially being outfitted at the start with time-appropriate clothes, you are told to avoid wear red footwear which was reserved for members of the Roman Senate. | |
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