Pako Mielisairaalasta

Pako Mielisairaalasta — “Escape from the Mental Asylum” — is a fine sample of the absurd humour of the Finnish home-computer scene of the 1990s. According to the period blurb, you have wiped out six thousand hippies with the power of rap music, and for that you have been locked up in an asylum. The escape is now in your hands.

The game was made by Karpaasi-tuotanto and the blurb bills it as coming “from the creator of Teuvo Quest”, another small Finnish title. Besides a VGA card it also demands “a reasonably large brain capacity” from the player, so expect puzzling rather than action. Version 1.1 is the one to have — the authors themselves declared the earlier releases defective.

You can attempt the escape right in your browser on OldGame.cz.