Trivia
- Real-life journalist Chet Flippo appears as a character also named Chet Flippo (who, appropriately, runs the local newspaper).
- During the course of the adventure, the player has several (expensive) encounters with Buick Riviera, a con man. In the later Titanic, Riviera appears as a middle aged man playing cards aboard the ship. If you indicate that you've been to Diamondback, Riviera begins playing with a special set of Diamondback cards. The Titanic game includes several other references to Dust, but the presence of Buick is the most obvious.
- The doctor is named Hillary Rodham, the maiden name of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
- In a few of the endings, the narrarator signs out with, "I've got to see a man about a horse." This line is used again in Cyberflix's later game, Titanic. The line may be a reference to the 1947 noir film Out of the Past. In one scene, Kirk Douglas's character tells Robert Mitchum's that he is in Mexico to "see a man about a horse."
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