I felt Trinity was really surpurb -- it was the first Infocom game I played where I didn't require any outside hints (some puzzles in Hitchhiker's Guide were really illogical, and I was probably too ...

My nine-year-old eyes peered at the off-white “stone” cradled in my father’s hand; The Wishbringer stone, capable of granting its owner seven wishes. This physical manifestation of Infocom’s classic ...

In my review of Get Lamp, the documentary about text adventures, I mentioned that the original Infocom employees believed the market for these games could exist for hundreds of years. After all, the ...

One of the coolest text adventure games of the 1980s was Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, based on Douglas Adams’ bestselling novel of the same name. Though the game was wildly popular, and ...

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A few months back while participating in a basement cleaning session, I stumbled upon a box of jewel cases full of old game CDs -- Command & Conquer, Doom, X-Com: UFO Defense (one of my all-time ...

Infocom is so far removed from public notice in 2022 that you won't even find archival photos in image libraries from the likes of Getty and Shutterstock. Credit: Bettmann / Contributor via Getty ...

The new Peacock mystery series Poker Face premieres January 26, and Executive Producer Rian Johnson has revealed which classic video games helped inspire the show and his career in general. Poker Face ...

Today's the last Thursday before the big App Store freeze, which means this is basically developers' last chance to get on the marketplace before the big holiday rush. As a result, then, there are a ...

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