The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol (video game) The Fourth Protocol is an interactive fiction computer game based on Frederick Forsyth's 1984 spy novel "The Fourth Protocol". The detective-style gameplay resembles contemporary menu-driven adventures such as "The Vera Cruz Affair", and later titles such as "Yes, Prime Minister" and "Floor 13". The game was released in by Hutchinson Computer Publishing, a subsidiary of the publishing house Hutchinson. It was designed by John Lambshead and Gordon Paterson, and the programming was by Ben Notarianni, Rupert Bowater and Paul Norris of the Electronic Pencil Company. The game was released for the ZX Spectrum in July
The Fourth World (novel) might be understood as a jab against colonialism, as it is willing to modify the nature of life, or as an attack against escapism, since the dragons serve as a mere diversion from the real world. The novel additionally alludes to "The Postman" with Kevin Costner, and notes the irony in that the viewers were living in the time of an apocalypse, even while the watching the movie, as the political implications of widespread capitalism had corrupted society to its core. Arguably the greatest significance of the novel lies in its total disregard of the majority of the planetary surface