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Trinity (Computer Game)Trinity was an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and published in 1986 by Infocom, perhaps the most successful commercial producer of IF games. It is regarded as one of the best works produced by the company's creative team. The plot included historical and fantastic elements as part of a tone poem regarding the destructive power of the atomic bomb and the futile nature of war in the atomic age. The packaging for Trinity contained several items (feelies) critical to the plot of the game, including: - a map of the Trinity site;
- cardboard cutouts that, when assembled, produced a sundial with odd markings, and
- a comic-book history of the atomic bomb, laden with ironic statements regarding the patriotism, idealism, and jingoism that the authors felt surrounded the production of atomic weaponry.
Plot and Landscape The game begins with your final day in London. You are scheduled for an evening flight back to the United States, but you are unlikely to make your plane. The reasons include an odd roadrunner, hordes of nannies blocking all exits from the Kensington Garden, and the fact that a Soviet first strike is scheduled for an hour from now. The bad news is that you can't avoid being at ground zero. The good news is that nuclear blasts happen to be associated with transdimensional portals... ... to a very strange land, somewhat reminiscent of the design of a very, very large sundial. While the landscape is vaguely familiar, space and time don't seem to work quite right in this place, leading to some very odd effects. If you don't want to be trapped here forever, though, you'll have to explore the other portals... each of which lands you at ground zero, a few minutes before a nuclear blast. Your journey will take you through many lands and times, to the beginning of it all: July, 1945, Journada del Muerto, New Mexico. Nuclear Explosions Visited - Omega: London, 1985 (fictional)
- Mercury: Low Earth Orbit, 1985 (fictional)
- Pluto: Nevada (underground), 1974 (historical)
- Neptune: Bikini Island, Pacific Ocean, 1950 (historical)
- Libra: Siberia, 1949 (historical)
- Mars: Nagasaki, Japan, 1945 (historical)
- Alpha: Trinity, New Mexico, 1945 (historical)
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