ESCAPE ARTIST

(HTML5, 2022)

Use the arrow keys to move. Race the timer to reach the door. Try not to die.

Desktop only. Sorry, mobile phone users.

Music by Michael of Brentford.

RUN-D1: BACKGROUND

A few years ago I was sorting through boxes when I came across a stack of old cassette tapes. I could tell they were games from some kind of console. Only, I didn’t have any memory of playing these games. In fact, I had no recollection of even seeing these tapes before.

I took them home, cleaned them up, and spent days searching for any information about the games, who made them, or the logo emblazoned on each: ‘RUN-D1’.

No details about the games or the console have ever been found. Undeterred, I bought a USB-cassette device from eBay and after hours of electrical maintenance, managed to download strings of the code. Using a new process, which I will document later, I have translated those games to the modern web. I hope you enjoy them as so many people in the past presumably once did.