History VideoGame / Planetfall

* AcmeProducts: You notice that a raygun in the tool room says "Akmee Portabul Laazur". A little downplayed, though.
* AlmightyJanitor: Well, just look at the box art.

* ApocalypseHow: This space station is on Planetary Engineered Single Dominant Species Extinction. [[spoiler:And once the Zeenak pyramid sends its replicas into space, it will send the space station into Planetary Physical Annihilation unless you destroy the pyramid and its replicas in time.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The trademark humor is still there, but ''Stationfall'' is considerably darker in tone. You're facing a threat that slaughtered a space station and is slowly but inexorably [[spoiler:brainwashing your RobotBuddy.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The trademark humor is still there, but ''Stationfall'' is considerably darker in tone. You're facing a threat that slaughtered a space station and is slowly but inexorably brainwashing your RobotBuddy.

* ShootTheDog: At the end Floyd becomes fully corrupted by the Zeenak pyramid and you have to kill him or let the galaxy burn. He's not repairable this time.

** When you search in the Computer Room for Interlogic Games, you get references to "VideoGame/{{Zo|rk}}ork", "VideoGame/{{De|adline}}dliin", "[[VideoGame/TheWitness1983 [Xe] Witnis]]", "VideoGame/{{Star|cross}}kros" and "VideoGame/{{Su|spended}}zpendid" -- parodying each of Infocom's games up to the time of ''Planetfall''[='=]s release.

** When you search in the Computer Room for Interlogic Games, you get references to "VideoGame/{{Zo|rk}}ork", "VideoGame/{{De|adline}}dliin", "[[VideoGame/TheWitness1983 [Xee] Witnes]]", "VideoGame/{{Star|cross}}kros" and "VideoGame/{{Suspended}}" -- parodying each of Infocom's games up to the time of ''Planetfall''[='=]s release.

* SequelDifficultySpike: A rather extreme one at that. ''Planetfall'' was one of Infocom's easier games, but ''Stationfall'' is closer to expert level. A much larger map, the time limit is considerably tighter, and the station becomes deadly as the game progresses.

-->Floyd looks out at you, right through your computer screen. "See that copyright notice?" he asks in a defiant tone. "If anyone tries pirating this disk, they'll have Floyd to answer to."

--->"Hey, Floyd's a robot, not a garbage pail!" Floyd giggles uncontrollably at his own joke.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:You have saved the entire universe by destroying the Zeenak pyramid and its replicas. Unfortunately, you ended up having to [[ShootTheDog kill the brainwashed Floyd]] so at least [[IDieFree he could die peacefully]]. However, little Oliver comes to life as Floyd's reincarnation and gets you to play with him, giving you solace over your old friend's loss.]]

* ThirdPersonPerson[=/=]HulkSpeak: Floyd talks like this in a childish way in both this game and ''Stationfall''.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy[=/=]HomicideMachines: [[spoiler:The pyramid devised by the Zeenak race slowly turns all Hunji machinery, intelligent or not, against their creators. And that includes your robot buddy, Floyd.]]
* BreakingTheFourthWall[=/=]DigitalPiracyIsEvil: If you type in "version" while Floyd is on and present, as soon as the title appears along with the copyright, you get this:

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: If you try to put an item into Floyd, you get this:
-->"Hey, Floyd's a robot, not a garbage pail!" Floyd giggles uncontrollably at his own joke.

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: There are berserk welder robots that shoot lasers at you, operating machinery, an overheating tape reader, food dispensers that spit out acid, and many food items that can poison and kill you (barring the taffy and the Ramosian Fire Nectar).

* {{Foreign|Remake}} VideoGameRemake: In February 1992, over eight-and-a-half years after the original ''Planetfall'', Japanese software development company [=SystemSoft=] developed and published its [[http://pc98library.tistory.com/1571 remake for]] [[UsefulNotes/PC98 the PC-9801]]. Unlike the original, this game has some of the most common verb commands ("look", "take", etc.) that can be accessed by pressing a corresponding button (the player still has to type the name of an object, though), and enhanced graphics, especially in the list of objects on which the text is super-imposed.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy[=/=]HomicideMachines: [[spoiler:The pyramid slowly turns all machinery, intelligent or not, against their creators. And that includes your robot buddy, Floyd.]]

* RobotBuddy: Floyd
* ShootTheDog: At the end Floyd becomes fully corrupted by the pyramid and you have to kill him or let the galaxy burn. He's not repairable this time.

* ShoutOut: One of the dreams you encounter while you sleep makes a reference to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

** When you search in the Computer Room for Interlogic Games, you get references to "VideoGame/{{Zo|rk}ork", "VideoGame/{{De|adline}}dliin", "[[VideoGame/TheWitness1983 [Xee] Witnes]]", "VideoGame/{{Star|cross}}kros" and "VideoGame/{{Suspended}}" -- parodying each of Infocom's games up to the time of ''Planetfall''[='=]s release.

** When you search in the Computer Room for Interlogic Games, you get references to "[[VideoGame/{{Zork}} Zoork]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Deadline}} Dedliin]]", "[[VideoGame/TheWitness1983 [Xee] Witnes]]", "[[VideoGame/{{Starcross}} Starkros]]" and "VideoGame/{{Suspended}}" -- parodying each of Infocom's games up to the time of ''Planetfall''[='=]s release.

* ContinuityNod: As Floyd [[spoiler:lays dying]], you sing his favorite song to him -- "The Ballad of the Starcrossed Miner". It's a blatant reference to the events of ''Starcross'' as humanity's discovery of FTL travel, setting it earlier in the Planetfall/Stationfall continuity.
** Also, if you turn on the computer in the Computer Library and go to "Technology - Robotics", you get a history of the B-19 series, a possible reference to ''Suspended''.

* ShoutOut: One of the games in the Castle's Rec Hall is [[{{VideoGame/Zork}} Double Fanucci]].
** Also, when you search in the Computer Room for Interlogic Games, you get references to "Zoork", [[MysteryFiction "Dedliin", "[Xee] Witnes"]], "Starkros" and "Suspended".

* SequelDifficultySpike: Just figuring out what what you're even supposed to be doing is difficult, let alone going about it.

* WizardNeedsFoodBadly: ''Stationfall'' has a lack-of-food timer, requiring the player character to eat every hour. {{Lampshaded}} with the explanation that highly-processed future food just isn't very nutritious. The supply of food is also ''very'' limited.

* RedHerring: ''Planetfall'' is ''bad'' about this one. About half the object look important but are useless. There are several dark rooms, and the only lantern is in a room you can never enter and live. And a helicopter the game leads you to believe you can pilot. At the end Floyd brings you some of the keys to these and remarks that [[BreakingTheFourthWall maybe they'll be useful in the sequel]].