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In the popular 1988 movie Big, a kid wants to be an adult and his wish is granted though having an adult body and a kid's life experience causes problems. Tom Hanks plays him with an adult body and ends up falling in love with a lady friend and getting an awesome job at a toy company but still misses being a normal kid. In one of the early scenes of the movie, the kid is playing a graphic text adventure game on his computer called Cavern of the Evil Wizard, which was never a real game and only put together for the movie. The game is a metaphor for the events to come. The ice-melting puzzle is a metaphor for Josh being stuck in adolescence and how he wants to break free and become an adult. The Zoltar machine is his gateway into adulthood but is also a representation of childhood and innocence. In the end when Josh goes back to work on the puzzle and finds a way to melt the ice, he has learned that being a kid isn't so bad and the puzzle has been completed, therefore he can go back to being a child. This is a free but quite short browser adventure created by a fan to replicate the look of the game in the movie and for all to play online. If you see the movie, you'll figure out how to beat the game at the end. |
