Help Me ID this old video game

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It had a Sierra-type interface, a first-person command line with a static BMP window and maybe even mouse support (but why?). The graphics were EGA quality, and I think I played it on a 286 or perhaps an Apple of similar vintage.

The scene I remember is trying to get through a certain gate, and I had to go to a bureaucracy bureau to get a permit; each permit (“Go to floor X, room Y, and get a Form Z” required the acquisition of two more forms (“Go to A, B, pick up C, and also go to D, E, and pick up F. Return here, and I’ll get you the Z.”). I think the people behind the desk were pigs.

The whole thing had the atmosphere of a nightmare – perhaps the character needed to have the forms to leave the Dream World?

Anyhow: what was this game called?

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Dream Zone.

You also kill somebody with a squirt gun, ride on a blimp, and buy a fake ID from a mouse (which is why you need to see the bureaucrats. The mouse will not sell you a fake ID unless you can produce a permit to buy a fake ID).

Dream Zone also had the unique feature of sending you to a punishment room if you used foul language. Hints to various parts of the game appeared as grafiti on the punishment room’s walls.

The Home Of The Underdogs can provide you with more information. Note that I mention the site for informative use only. I do not advocate visiting that site and downloading a copy, as that would be illegal and in violation of SDMB rules. I also don’t have the site bookmarked.

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