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The Thing (1988)

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This page is for the 1988 game. For the unrelated 2002 game based on the John Carpenter film of the same name, see The Thing.

The Thing
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Developers
Apogee Software
Release dates
DOS December 10, 1988
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Text-based
Genres Adventure, Puzzle
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The Thing (1988) is a singleplayer text-based adventure and puzzle game.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM details are not known
DOS

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
DOS

Save game data location

System Location
DOS

Video

Input

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
DOS video modes Text

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

System requirements

DOS
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)


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