The Town Square You are standing in the middle of a pretty town square in the center of a nondescript England town. Like most any other nondescript New England town, there's not much to see or do here, but maybe you'll find something amusing and enjoyable to do.
A shiny metal phone booth sits in the center of the square.
PUTPBAA is a spinoff of the minimalist Interactive Fiction "Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die" and the differently minimalist "Aisle". Just as in the latter, you can only make one move, and then the game ends. You have a host of other commands to choose from, and each one leads to hundreds of Alternate Endings, each one sillier than the last.The game can be downloaded here, or played online here.It has also been "ported" to Uncyclopedia.
Cargo Ship: Invoked. Several endings imply romantic involvement between you and the booth. Others aren't so subtle.
Cataclysm Climax: Well let's see... among the "Game Overs" include death by meteor, death by the wrath of god, death by "ICE STOOOOOOORM", death by Cosmic Horror...
Remember how typing "Inventory" causes your pants to explode? Try typing Disarm Pants, Disleg Pants, Throw Pants, Remove Pants, Eat Pants, and then Deactivate Pants.
Die, Chair! Die!: "Fight", "smash", "destroy", and other similar words cause the protagonist to try to destroy the booth. It ends badly for him, unsurprisingly.
The Dog Bites Back: There are a number of ways to kill the phone booth. Unfortunately, there are even MORE ways it can kill you instead.
Downer Ending: Most endings end badly for the protagonist.
Exact Words: Some of the endings like to misinterpret commands like "tie booth". This can be confusing to those who try synonyms like "fix booth".
Gainax Ending: "Eat Booth" results in a mishmash of references to Aisle and So Far (bizarre enough that even the parser feels obliged to comment); "Kick Booth" seems like a utter non-sequitur unless you've played Losing Your Grip.
Interface Screw: After using undo as a verb, no matter what keys you press the game will type out, one letter per keypress, "drive" and execute that command, to much confusion if it was an accident.
Even more confusing since "drive" is not one of the recognized commands in the game proper.
This is a shout-out to Adam Cadre's Shrapnel, which pulls the same trick.
I Can't Use These Things Together: Lampshaded; if you try to perform an action with a direction, you get creative bug responses. Waltz <direction>, for example, gets you the response, 'Your new name is Waltzes with Bugs'.
Never Heard That One Before: Try entering "xyzzy", and a disembodied voice will complain about being summoned every time someone decides to make this reference.
Take That: Sort of. Typing "sleep" prompts this response:
"Looks like another cold night coming. Your best bet seems to be the phone booth. Huddled inside, you catch some winks as best as you can before the cops move you on. The half bottle of cooking sherry you stole seems to help. Next day, the struggle begins again."
Then there's the above Take That, where a depressing paragraph about you, a poor man trying to sleep, actually having been the CEO of dot-com bubble company pets.com.
Wafer Thin Mint: Watch what happens when you type "fill self".
" and the differently minimalist "Aisle
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