Asylum is an adventure game created by William F. Denman Jr. and released in 1981 by Med Systems (later known as Screenplay) of Chapel Hill, North Carolina for the TRS-80 computer.
It combines a text adventure with simple line graphics to create a first-person perspective 3D game.
The sequel was later enhanced with bitmapped graphics, color, and improved descriptions, and released simply as Asylum for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1983, and Commodore 64 and IBM PC in 1985.
[3] PC Magazine stated that the game's use of graphics "is one of the features that makes it more exciting than Adventure".
While criticizing its copy protection, the reviewer liked the time limit and stated that her daughter found the game "cool".