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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

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