Like most RPGs of its time, Wasteland was a party-based game but its party members were different from the ones found in other games. In addition to being collections of skills and stats, they appeared to have minds of their own. Party members would sometimes refuse to follow commands given by the player. Behavior like this was an early instance of NPCs evidencing what appeared to the player as artificial intelligence and if you weren't prepared for it, it was a shock the first time it happened. Playing in Wasteland was something like the 1988 version of going to Westworld and being confronted by hosts that weren't doing what you thought they were programmed to do.
