Mr and Mrs Graham have gone out to a movie and left you to babysit their daughter, Anna.
Somehow, you have fallen asleep on the living room couch. In your dream, Mr and Mrs Graham came home, found Anna missing and berated you severely (and rightly so). Amid waves of utter humiliation, you awaken suddenly in a cold sweat. You are on the couch and everything seems fine. But is it? You'll soon find out.
This game was originally known as 'Midnight Emergency'. It was written in Turbo BASIC for IBM-compatible PCs by John H Doolittle circa 1989 and used in his 'Scientific Thinking in Psychology' classes when he was a professor of psychology at California State University, Sacramento.
It was ported to ZBasic by Eric Thornton and published by Critical Thinking Press as game 2 in the 'Adventures in Danger!' trilogy. This was released for the Apple II and Macintosh in 1992.
John continued to update the game until 1996 and released the Turbo BASIC source code in 2023.
The original game was ported to Inform 6 by Garry Francis using the PunyInform library. It was then enhanced in collaboration with the original author to become The Babysitter. The map and puzzles of that version are similar to the original, but the solution is considerably different.
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