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* {{Feelies}}: The original release's box included a pencil and bank deposit slip players were supposed to fill out before booting up the game proper.

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* {{Feelies}}: The original release's box included a pencil pencil, a letter from your new boss, a flyer for Popular Paranoia magazine, and bank deposit a credit card application form. The credit card application slip players was in triplicate, and the three copies were supposed to fill out before booting up completely different - for example, where the game proper.top copy gives a checklist of assets, the bottom copy claims those same assets as gifts to the bank.
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* {{Feelies}}: The original release's box included a pencil and bank deposit slip players were supposed to fill out before booting up the game proper.
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* UncreditedRole: Douglas Adams had heavy assistance from writer Michael Bywater, in the creation of ''Bureaucracy''. He is unclear as to how much he actually did, but according to other Infocom people, they had much more interaction with Bywater for this game than they did Adams.

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* UncreditedRole: Douglas Adams had heavy assistance from writer Michael Bywater, in the creation of ''Bureaucracy''. He It is unclear as to how much he actually did, contributed to the game other than the general idea, but according to other Infocom people, they had much more interaction with Bywater for this game than they did Adams.


* AuthorUsurpation: The runaway success of Infocom's game based on ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' made them eager to start on the sequel that they knew that they wanted to do. Douglas Adams was at that point burned out on the constant main focus on that one series which was his life for the last six years. He wanted to do something else. This ended up being ''Bureaucracy''. Infocom agreed but really were just interested in keeping Adams happy enough to eventually get him onboard to the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' sequel that they really were interested in.

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* AuthorUsurpation: The runaway success of Infocom's game based on ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1984'' made them eager to start on the sequel that they knew that they wanted to do. Douglas Adams was at that point burned out on the constant main focus on that one series which was his life for the last six years. He wanted to do something else. This ended up being ''Bureaucracy''. Infocom agreed but really were just interested in keeping Adams happy enough to eventually get him onboard to the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' sequel that they really were interested in.
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* AuthorUsurpation: The runaway success of Infocom's game based on ''VideoGame/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' made them eager to start on the sequel that they knew that they wanted to do. Douglas Adams was at that point burned out on the constant main focus on that one series which was his life for the last six years. He wanted to do something else. This ended up being ''Bureaucracy''. Infocom agreed but really were just interested in keeping Adams happy enough to eventually get him onboard to the ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' sequel that they really were interested in.
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* UncreditedRole: Douglas Adams had heavy assistance from writer Michael Bywater, in the creation of ''Bureaucracy''. He is unclear as to how much he actually did, but according to other Infocom people, they had much more interaction with Bywater for this game than they did Adams.

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