Borrowed Time on the Commodore 64 is a 1930s hard-boiled detective graphic text adventure where you play private eye Sam Harlow, trying to rescue your kidnapped ex-wife Rita Sweeney while dodging constant assassination attempts from unseen gangsters. Set in a noir, big-city streets-and-offices maze, you roam between locations via a menu-based compass and interact through a hybrid interface—typed commands plus selectable verbs and nouns—interrogating suspects, gathering evidence, and surviving frequent sudden-death ambushes as you piece together who’s behind the attacks and why.