Tass Times in Tonetown
DOS - 1986
Also available on: Mac - Amiga - Apple II - Apple IIgs - Atari ST - Commodore 64
Description of Tass Times in Tonetown
One of the quirkiest and most underrated adventure games ever, Tass Times in Tonetown is a fun romp in an psychadelic / punkrock alternate reality that could have been conceived by Timothy Leary.
Your job: visit Tonetown to save your grandpa from a hideous crocodile creature named Franklin J. Snarl, with the aid of your dog who not only could talk but became a star reporter. Based on the engine used in 1985's Borrowed Time, Tass Times sports an intuitive icon-based interface and extremely creative puzzles (although they are mostly easy due to the small number of items you can pick up and use). Exploring the gameworld is half the fun-- nowhere else will you see floating phones, triangular moon, and NPCs that look like futuristic MTV generation come to life. The game even has a convenient, but logical, explanation of Tonetown's existence: it is your grandpa's dream comes to live thanks to the "dream hoop" he invented.
With wacky puzzles, great graphics (for its time), and one of the best premises ever, Tass Times in Tonetown is an extremely original game that's simply a must-have for adventure fans. An interesting anecdote concerns the origins of the name "Tass" in the game's title. According to Brian Fargo, this was Michael Berlyn's favorite utterance around the Interplay office. Having gotten a degree from Harvard where the school motto is Latin term Veritas, Mike was used to saying "tass" to means "cool" -- this stuck, and became the game's final name. Brian didn't like it much, but he thought it still sounds better than Enio The Wonder Dog, the game's original name.
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Joe Mama 2024-11-22 0 point
I think I remember this game from high school. One day in our Computer Science class the teacher gave us this game and handed out the mice to connect to our Apple IIgs's.
anacapito 2023-03-18 1 point Commodore 64 version
i have fond memories of this game, it was one of the best adventure on the commodore 64. It was so original and charming..
Kevo 2022-04-16 2 points
Apple IIgs version was sick. Got stuck at the mushroom forest with the eye and nose sitting on the wall, back then you could call the developers directly and the guy who answered gave me a "hint".
TJ 2020-04-18 1 point
The graphics for the Macintosh version on here are from the Apple II game, and you forgot to include the Atari ST as a platform for the game. Which was almost identical to the Amiga version. Though the ST version had some animated sequences in the game where the Amiga version did not!
TJ 2020-04-18 0 point
The graphics or the Macintosh on here are from the Apple II game, and you forgot to include the Atari ST as a platform for the game. Which was almost identical to the Amiga version.
hideous23 2018-07-17 6 points
An irritating and annoying game, not remotely as clever as it thinks.
Zendocon 2018-01-21 3 points DOS version
I first played this game as part of the Interplay 10-Year Anthology for PC-DOS. I hadn't gotten any of the original Infocom games yet, and so Tass Times In Tonetown was the first game that had a "feelie," a pseudo-newspaper that I used to read to find clues to completing the game. That was the thing I liked best about it.
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DOS Version
260 KBMac Version
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc.
Amiga ROM
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc.
Apple II Version
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc.
Apple IIgs Version
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc.
Atari ST ROM
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Productions, Inc.
Commodore 64 Version
- Year: 1986
- Publisher: Activision, Inc.
- Developer: Brainwave Creations, Interplay Entertainment Corp.
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