History VideoGame / Trinity

** You are also required to let a lemming go to it's death to escape from a rattlesnake.

''Trinity'' is a work of InteractiveFiction by Brian Moriarty (''VideoGame/{{Wishbringer}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Loom}}'') published by Creator/{{Infocom}} in 1986.

** At the beginning, you come across some writing in the Kensington Gardens sundial that says, "[[AltumVidetur TEMPUS EDAX RERUM]]", Latin for "Time, the devourer of all things."

* RunningGag: The various "Gnomin" puns.

* ShownTheirWork: Five of the seven sites in the game (1945's Nagasaki, 1949's Siberia, 1950's Enewetak Atoll, 1974's Operation Bedrock in Nevada, and 1945's Trinity test site in New Mexico) were carefully researched through months of history books, photos, and video tapes. Moriarty even visited the New Mexico test site for the 40th anniversary of the nuclear test, along with the Kensington Gardens in London, for the making of the game. Also, most of the radio and audio clips played throughout the Trinity site in the final part of the game are actual radio clips in real life.

** At the beginning, you come across some writing in Kensington Gardens that says, "[[AltumVidetur TEMPUS EDAX RERUM]]", Latin for "Time, the devourer of all things."

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Examining the symbols on any sundial can net you a reference to [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew]] 16:3c (KJV), which is actually an excerpt from {{Jesus}}' explanation of the interpretation of the times (Matthew 16:2-3), also cited in Luke 12:54-56.[[note]]According to the footnote of the NAB version, both verses "[rebuke] the Pharisees and Sadducees who are able to read indications of [the] coming weather, but not the indications of the coming kingdom in the signs that Jesus does offer, his mighty deeds and teaching."[[/note]]

** When you visit the Libra site for a certain task, you hear a microphone speaking in a phonetic form of Russian. Anyone who's studied the Russian language will discover that the site is Siberia, and that the voice is counting down the time in minutes and seconds, which means you have a limited amount of time to perform a task before the RDS-10 explodes.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Examining the symbols on any sundial can net you a reference to [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew]] 16:3c (KJV), which is actually an excerpt from {{Jesus}}' explanation of the interpretation of the times (Matthew 16:2-3), also cited in Luke 12:54-56.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Examining the symbols on any sundial can net you a reference to [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew]] 19:28 (probably).

* SnakesAreSinister: You come across a rattlesnake in the Assembly Room in the final part of the game, whose deadly bite will soon kill you (and not even the roadrunner can drive it away. How can you make the snake go away? Simple: [[spoiler:you hide in the closet and close its door so that the snake can't strike against you, then you have to free the lemming from its cage and then let the closet door back open [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption so that the snake can kill the lemming]] and slither away with its prize.]]

* SnakesAreSinister: You come across a rattlesnake in the Assembly Room in the final part of the game, whose deadly bite will soon kill you (and not even the roadrunner can drive it away. How can you make the snake go away? Simple: [[spolier:you hide in the closet and close its door so that the snake can't strike against you, then you have to free the lemming from its cage and then let the closet door back open [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption so that the snake can kill the lemming]] and slither away with its prize.]]

* ShownTheirWork: Five of the seven sites in the game (1945's Nagasaki, 1949's Siberia, 1950's Enewetak Atoll, 1974's Operation Bedrock in Nevada, and 1945's Trinity test site in New Mexico) were carefully researched through months of history books and video tapes. Moriarty even visited the New Mexico test site for the 40th anniversary of the nuclear test, along with the Kensington Gardens in London, for the making of the game. Also, most of the radio and audio clips played throughout the Trinity site in the final part of the game are actual radio clips in real life.

-->'''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''', Act I, scene v.

* BilingualBonus: When you visit the Libra site for a certain task, you hear a microphone speaking in a phonetic form of Russian. Anyone who's studied the Russian language will discover that the site is Siberia, and that the voice is counting down the time in minutes and seconds, which means you have a limited amount of time to perform a task before the RDS-10 explodes.
** Also, at the beginning, you come across some writing in Kensington Gardens that says, "[[AltumVidetur TEMPUS EDAX RERUM]]", Latin for "Time, the devourer of all things." And in the Vertex, when you examine the sundial, you get a quote from French author Arthur Rimbaud, whose words mean "There is a clock that makes no sound."

* TheFerryMan: There is a ferryman, called Charon, guiding lost souls to the other side through the river Styx. You'll have to [[DeadPersonImpersonation disguise yourself as a dead king]] and pay the toll of a silver coin if you want to get through to the final test site. The ferryman will also guide your soul to the other side as a GameOver if you screw up on many places and die.

* ShownTheirWork: Five of the seven sites in the game (1945's Nagasaki, 1949's Siberia, 1950's Enewetak Atoll, 1974's Operation Bedrock in Nevada, and 1945's aptly-named Trinity test site in New Mexico) were carefully researched through months of history books and video tapes. Moriarty even visited the New Mexico test site for the 40th anniversary of the nuclear test, along with the Kensington Gardens in London, for the making of the game. Also, most of the radio and audio clips played throughout the Trinity site in the final part of the game are actual radio clips in real life.

* {{Bookends}}: ''Trinity'' starts and ends in Kensington Gardens in London, where you have to do certain stuff until you find a woman about to lose her umbrella in the wind.

* ReferenceOverdosed: ''Trinity'' has a load of references to such as ''Literature/ThroughTheLookingGlass'', ''Literature/MobyDick'', Creator/EmilyDickinson, Creator/AlexanderPope, Creator/WaltWhitman, ''Literature/PeterPan'', Music/TalkingHeads, etc. And it's not just through the game, but it is also included in the back of the box art (''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'') and some of the feelies, too.

* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:At the game's climax, you may attempt to sabotage the Trinity bomb test, hoping to prevent the history leading up to World War III beginning on the day you visited Kensington Gardens. If you succeed, all you will achieve is the creation of that history. "If Harry doesn't get his A-bomb, the future that created you cannot occur. And you can't sabotage the test if you're never born, can you?"]]

* ShownTheirWork: Five of the seven sites in the game (1945's Nagasaki, 1949's Siberia, 1950's Enewetak Atoll, 1974's Operation Bedrock in Nevada, and 1945's aptly-named Trinity test site in New Mexico) were carefully researched through months of history books and video tapes. Moriarty even visited the New Mexico test site for the 40th anniversary of the nuclear test, along with the Kensington Gardens in London, for the making of the game. Also, most of the radio and audio clips played throughout the Trinity site in the game are actual radio clips in real life.

->''The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!''

* GrandfatherParadox: [[spoiler:At the game's climax, you may attempt to sabotage the Trinity bomb test, hoping to prevent the history leading up to World War III beginning on the day you visited Kensington Garden. If you succeed, all you will achieve is the creation of that history. "If Harry doesn't get his A-bomb, the future that created you cannot occur. And you can't sabotage the test if you're never born, can you?"]]