From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about rolling the dice to bring random games back into the light. This week, a lost adventure about a lost adventure where ship happened and the world was never the same.
Frank Carlson is the unluckiest man in the history of videogame protagonists. A spy in 1912, assigned to the Titanic, he survives the sinking only to be fired from the Office of Strategic Services and end up alone in the Second World War, in a room he can't even afford. On his desk, just a tarot card—Death—representing, as ever, cliché. In his desk drawer, a ticket... for the Hindenburg.
