"Gaaa Urk Bleh" is What He Said

Many, many moons ago, I enjoyed playing text adventure games like Nuclear Submarine Adventure and Terror in the Ice Caverns. One of the hardest was a little piece of tear-your-own-hair-out called Marooned Again. In Marooned Again, you were a space explorer navigating through an abandoned alien vessel. You had a cube and a tube. The tube would kill you if you pushed the purple button. It only ever had one purple button.

I obviously never completed this game. There are, apparently, people who have been playing this game off and on for a decade without solving it.

No longer. Someone on the Internet has posted a Marooned Again walkthrough:

"Let's start by going South, Down, North, Search Ledges, Search Alien, Have a Look, Take Cube, Take Tube, South, Up, Insert Cube, Take Cube, Go Hatch, Move Disk, Down, East, Shoot Robot, South, Search Boxes, Take Tricrystal, North, West, West, West, Insert Tricrystal, Search Computer, Open Door, Take Battery, Push Green Button and Memorise the Message, East, East, East, Go Hole, Search Video, Push Yellow Button, Type the word [Number].

"Go Door, Up, Take Crystals, Down, Up, Down, Up, Take Cord, Take Lights, West, Take Bottle, Have a Look, Take Magnet, East, North, Go Tube, Search Closet, Search Clothes, Take Badge, Down, West, Push Blue Button, Search Cabinet, Get Pellet, South, West, West, Take Food, Down, Push Blue Button, Down, Please note; This is a good time to save the Game.

"Kill Monster, Enter the word [Strike] until either you or the Monster dies. If you die, Restore Game and try again.

"Down, Take Microfilm, Up, Up, West, Tie Magnet, Fish, West, Throw Food, Take Board, North, Up, Up, Take Headphones, Down, Down, South, East, East, North, South, Take Charts, North, North, West, West, up, Open Door, Push Violet Button, Down, East, Move Disk, Down, Search Viewer, Insert Microfilm, Search Panel, Type the word [Start] and insert the Components in the following order:

"Battery, Circuit-Board, Cube, Fuel-Pellet, Headphones, Navigation-Charts, Power-Crystal.

"Push Blue Button, Push Red Button."

I'll have to try this the next time I've got an old DOS system laying around and some free time.