I really liked Infocom games. We eventually bought King's Quest I which was impressive (visually), but the Infocom language parser was *far* superior to the Sierra parser. Like 100+ times so. I ...

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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Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and all the other Infocom text adventures are much more clever than the appear at first glance. They actually run on a virtual machine, with all the code for ...

As a GenXer who grew up in the 80s, Infocom games were a big part of my gaming back then. I've managed to keep one eye on the competitions and try new games out on occasion. The quality is astounding!

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 ...

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 ...

The BBC has released a free online version of Infocom's classic PC text adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the game's initial release. Designed by ...

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 ...

Infocom, king of the text adventure and the first behemoth of American computer game development, began not with a bang, but with an internet meme. Long before “All Your Base” and the “O R’LY? owl,” ...

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