By: fleacircus
See that toolbar down near the bottom of The Escapist? See that magic word "text"? Click on that to get a much more readable version of the article. Oh, one of those greyed-out looking hard to read...
View ArticleBy: davcoo
The first game I ever bought was an Infocom text adventure game for the Osborne I (tan case). (I guess "Osborne I" and "text" are redundant, huh?)
View ArticleBy: davros42
See that toolbar down near the bottom of The Escapist? See that magic word "text"? Click on that to get a much more readable version of the article. Because yes, the Escapist's magazine style layout...
View ArticleBy: joeblough
about a year ago, i got a treo 650, and i started looking for alternatives to versamail (the built-in email program.) i was very surprised to find that marc blank is now self-employed and writing the...
View ArticleBy: minimal
Interesting read. Is it just me, or did anyone else get an apple-ish feeling from their old ads?
View ArticleBy: Twang
The story here is readable without flipping thru countless webpages with 'helpful' graphics.
View ArticleBy: fleacircus
The gamer in me wants to scoff at them for putting business ahead of games in their hearts. But I think they had the timing right to get out. And yes the Escapist layout is fucking annoying.
View ArticleBy: hades
I'm sure I've mentioned this before in one of the other Infocom threads, but Underdogs has an old link to the package scans. The current (CoralCDN) location of the Infocom package gallery is here....
View ArticleBy: influx
Good god the Escapist needs to redesign their articles. How is anybody supposed to read that? I can't even bump the font size up, because the navbar floats over the text. The only way I can read...
View ArticleBy: crunchland
Thanks for that link, Timory. Brings back memories of struggling to get a babblefish or the surprise twist in A Mind Forever Voyaging on my old C64.
View ArticleBy: timory
if you feel like you're missing some of your favorite games (nord and bert! bureaucracy!) not listed in that online archive, try going to home of the underdogs. they really have everything, even links...
View ArticleBy: das_2099
yeah, it was a pretty awesome post, even if it was a (2d) example of blatant self-linking
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
Yeah, I'll resurrect my comment too: I love this kind of case study story. Thanks!
View ArticleBy: ewagoner
As someone who spent far too much time playing Infocom games back in the day, I found this post very interesting, and thus rescued it from deletion.
View ArticleThe Short, Happy Life of Infocom
Remember Infocom? What makes a small, beloved, and wildly successful developer of interactive fiction decide to sideline the games and venture into building database software instead? While the...
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