Borrowed Time (video game)


Borrowed Time is a 1985 text adventure game. The storyline is about a detective, who tries to rescue his kidnapped wife. The game was developed by Interplay and published by Activision.
Mastertronic republished it as a budget game, renamed Time to Die.

Reception

Info rated Borrowed Time four stars out of five, describing it as "a big step forward in the realm of 'interactive entertainment'... a tonic to jaded adventurers", and praising the game's graphics, parser, and humor. Compute! wrote that "Activision has created a delightful game environment with the look and feel of those classic hardboiled detective movies and novels". Computer Gaming Worlds Charles Ardai called Borrowed Time "a superbly cinematic graphic adventure" that was too brief and deserved a sequel. A German reviewer recognized the challenging storyline, the detailed graphics and the comfortable gameplay. He gave Borrowed Time 82 out of 100.