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	Title: (Critically Speaking...Multi-Systems) Bureaucracy
	Source: Computer Entertainer, v6(1)
	Date: April 1987
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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**BUREAUCRACY (NA/⭐⭐⭐⭐)** from ***<u>Infocom</u>*** is another bit of
inspired zaniness from Douglas Adams, author of "The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." This time the humor is
Earthbound, but no less entertaining, as Adams conducts a
hilarious tour through the wonderful world of bureaucratic red
tape. The tone of the game is set with the opening words on
the screen: "Our records show that you do not have a license
to operate this software." After you fill out the on-screen
application, an exercise in illogic to be sure, you begin the
game in your new apartment, as yet unfurnished. You're
supposed to be off to Paris for a training seminar for your new
job. Of course, the promised check hasn't arrived, and a
delivery man brings you a bag of llama food, and your
Boysenberry laptop computer keeps giving you internal error
messages, and maybe you shouldn't have gotten out of bed
this morning! Since there seems to be some problem with
your new address, you head for the bank to set the record
straight, but the teller at the window labeled "Address
Changes" doesn't have any change-of-address forms, and your
blood pressure keeps rising. Well, you can see where this is
leading -- straight to a nervous breakdown at this rate! This is
not a game, fols -- it's real life. We've all been where Douglas
Adams is taking us in BUREAUCRACY, but it's never been
quite this funny before. (Solo play; keyboard.) Available for
Amiga, 128K Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 128, IBM, and
Macintosh.

**Recommended.** (MSR $39.95, except C128 at $34.95)
