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From: forbes@sp11.csrd.uiuc.edu (Michael Scott Forbes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Infocom
Keywords: Frobboz, Flathead, Twisty little mazes
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Date: 31 Jul 90 18:31:57 GMT
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In article <4824@adobe.UUCP> jholt@adobe.UUCP (Joe Holt) writes:
>I grew up on the ingenuity and cleverness of Infocom.  Zork I on an Apple II
>was my first introduction to adventure gaming.  I still love it.  I hate
>Mediagenocide for what they did.
>
>Just had to get that off my chest.  Thanks, I feel better.
>
>-- joe

I'll second that; I'm *still* trying to solve Spellbreaker, the third game
in a series I began playing on my TRS-80 way back when.  The games and puzzles
were (and are) among the best of any computer games ever written; they gave
credibility to the term "interactive fiction" at a time when most other games
were still in the "TAKE LANTERN" stage.  I would have mailed money to Infocom
if I had known that Mediagenics was planning to dismantle them...

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