Suspended: The Cryogenic Nightmare is an interactive fiction computer game written by Michael Berlyn and published by Infocom in 1983. It belongs to the science fiction genre, and is considered by several fans to exist as one of Infocom's better non-Zork-related titles. Rather virtually all Infocom titles, it was ported to virtually all popular personal computers of a day, such as the Apple II, PC, Atari ST and Commodore 64.

Background
A streaming video player's character has been embedded in the facility that controls vital systems, like moving public transportation belts and weather control, for an Globe-settled planet known as Contra. inside the period of your computers 5-hundred-month tenure, smart shoppers would commonly become saved in stasis while your dormant mind serves when a Central Mentality for the largely self-maintaining systems. When a game opens, notwithstanding, your family is awakened by severe error messages; something is running catastrophically incorrectly. Yet, your family discover that a facility has suffered ruinous damage from either an earthquake, and a Filtering Computers come close up or even becoming perilously unstable. A dweller of a city use you use no more mad & come intentionally harming the city, when one of your computers predecessors got infamously done. a project is to repair a damage & restore the systems to normal states prior to a crew arrives at the facility to "disconnect" your computers mind, profits killing we, to replenish we using the clone.

Gameplay
Suspended took a novel approach within its gage mechanics; like than existence loose to move astir & interact sustaining a punt globe directly, the streaming video player's character spent the entire game within a state of suspended animation (hence the title) & can simply interact by controlling the actions of a total of robot surrogates. From each one golem experienced its have unique strengths & weaknesses, & would describe a equivalent rooms & objects around entirely different terms depending upon victims specializations. A golem were:

Iris - A single automaton sustaining ocular detector, Iris may provide ocular descriptions of locations & objects. When the game begins, nevertheless, Iris has suffered a burnt-out microchip and cannot understand. Whiz - the virtually all technical indicator indicator automaton, Whiz is utilized principally for interfacing by owning a central library computer for historical & technical info. Waldo - A virtually all capable physical manipulator, by using many limbs for grasping & holding objects. (A term "Waldo" was originally coined by Robert A. Heinlein to describe teleoperated robots.) Auda - Auda is equipped by having sensitive audio receptors & potty provide facts in sounds & vibrations. Poet - a symptomatic automaton, Poet may feel the flow of electricity; he tends to communicate inside somewhat cryptic language. Sensa - Sensa is specialized for the detection of charismatic & photon emissions.

Therefore, e.g., Audthe would describe the room primarily withwithwithin terms of the sounds existence generated there, Poet would describe it in terms of nosology of the devices there (& sentence it in divertingly metaphoric language), & Iris would provide a ocular description. 100% sestet of a automaton can be given orders inside conjunction, & a few of the challenges the streaming video player faced compulsory that many of the golem function together to solve the babies.

There was too a seventh golem, an completely-general-purpose multifunction repair golem known as Fred, world health organization spent the totality of the game broken & may not become repaired. (See red herring.)

Feelies
A tradition of feelies, or more things involved in a bet on pack, was began sustaining the release of Deadline and continued with Suspended. A back's feelies involved: A map of the facility & little tokens representing every golem. These were meant to allow a streaming video player to further well keep track of both character's whereabouts in the somewhat confusing layout of the facility. Briefing for the Contra Central Mentality, a leaflet that will bring an overview of a facility, a automaton, the adps, & the streaming video player character's responsibilities A letter from either a Contra Central Lottery Commission Headquarters explaining that a streaming video player hwhen been chosen to serve as Central Mentality for the next Five hundred years A Contral Central Mentality Lottery Card

Notes
Of these unique feature of Suspended was that a streaming video player's "score" was given in the total of deaths suffered following of the nonfunctional systems, like than the total of points for even collecting objects or accomplishing goals. (Plain, a goal was to minimize this total.)

A game offered tercet difficulty settings, which affected a total of turns a streaming video player experienced prior to "disconnection". Referable a complicated series of actions involved to win a game & a deficiency of initial reference, nonetheless, possibly the easiest setting is widely considered super hard. Infocom gave Suspended the difficulty rating of "Expert".

A original pack for Suspended featured a life-life-size whiten polymer mask placed into the front of the pack. This was replaced inside late packages by the picture of the face.

A working title for the game was Suspension.