Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle

"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. ---


 * Adventure Narrator Syndrome: Lampshaded; if you try to perform an action with a direction, you get creative bug responses. Waltz, for example, gets you the response, 'Your new name is Waltzes with Bugs'.
 * All Just a Dream: Mocked with.
 * Anticlimax:
 * And the Adventure Continues...
 * A Winner Is You
 * Becoming the Genie:
 * Bittersweet Ending: Several.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: Try "wave".
 * 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...
 * Cutting the Knot: Or so it seems.
 * The Dev Team Thinks of Everything: Granted, while there are over 200 endings to the game, the ending archive fails to list the word 'set' as a possible verb.
 * Remember how typing "Inventory" Try typing Disarm, Disleg , Throw , Remove , Eat , and then Deactivate.
 * 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.
 * however, is a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.
 * Diabolus Ex Machina: "Cook Booth" ends with a safe falling on the protagonist.
 * "Burn Booth" ends with God smiting you with lightning.
 * Everybody Lives: Many of the "Happy" endings are like this.
 * Everything's Better With Princesses: Type "look southwest".
 * Exact Words: Some of the endings like to misinterpret commands like "". This can be confusing to those who try synonyms like "".
 * Gainax Ending: Try "Eat". Even the parser comments on how little sense it makes.
 * 'Kick' ends with a pretty Gainaxy ending too.
 * Both are references to other interactive fiction - Aisle and Losing Your Grip, I believe.
 * Happily Ever After: Occasionally.
 * Have a Nice Death
 * Interface Screw: After using undo as a verb,, to much confusion if it was an accident.
 * Even more confusing since.
 * This is a shout-out to Adam Cadre's Shrapnel, which pulls the same trick.
 * It's a Wonderful Failure
 * The Hero Dies: A LOT
 * Logic Bomb: Type in "enter self".
 * Love Hurts: Choosing to "Love Booth" causes the phone booth to give you a big hug.
 * Mind Screw: Kick the phone booth.
 * Also,  Could possibly be a reference to the IF game Shade.
 * Try to undo without performing an action first.
 * Multiple Endings: The entire point of the game.
 * 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.
 * Nonstandard Game Over: Many times, you don't exactly die, but the game ends anyway.
 * Noodle Incident: Type in "walk" and the phone booth somehow impregnates you. And you end up in the Gobi desert.
 * Now What?
 * Oh God, With The Verbing!: Type "open booth".
 * Reticulating Splines: "Smock my knickers" gives you this phrase.
 * Shout-Out: To lots of other Text Adventures. And pop culture. And all sorts of other stuff.
 * Many endings describe the plot of movies or books.
 * Schrödinger's Gun: Depending on the ending, you may end up being a MIT student, Maxwell Smart, or even Superman.
 * Sexy Discretion Shot:
 * So Once Again the Day Is Saved: Two endings cast you as Superman of all people!
 * Stuff Blowing Up: Type "blow up booth" and "blow up self".
 * Title Drop: Do it! You'll win!
 * The Many Deaths of You: Again, the whole point of the game.
 * Twist Ending: Type "Wait"
 * Wafer-Thin Mint: Watch what happens when you type "fill self".
 * Wall of Text: You get one by typing "about".
 * Weddings for Everyone: Yes, one of the endings involves a wedding. In it, you marry
 * You Can't Get Ye Flask: Some verbs resolve differently depending on whether you specify the phone booth as the target or not.