Reception
Upon release, the game sold moderately well. Critics claimed the game was interesting, and displayed a large amount of effort in production and story. However, it was criticized as being slow-paced, disjointed and tedious as the player must visit several places repeatedly in order for an event to occur or not occur.
The game was reissued in 1993 to supplement the release of the sequel The Dagger of Amon Ra. This version corrects some errors with the special effects. Notably, the fireflies in the opening boat ride and around the dock are more visible and move less erratically.
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“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)