Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces
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MacPack Sneak Attack
(1997)
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Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces is a compilation of 33 Infocom games:
- A Mind Forever Voyaging
- Arthur
- Ballyhoo
- Beyond Zork
- Border Zone
- Bureaucracy
- Cutthroats
- Deadline
- Enchanter
- Hollywood Hijinx
- Infidel
- Journey
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos
- The Lurking Horror
- Moonmist
- Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
- Planetfall
- Plundered Hearts
- Seastalker
- Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
- Sorcerer
- Spellbreaker
- Starcross
- Stationfall
- Suspect
- Suspended
- Trinity
- Wishbringer
- The Witness
- Zork I
- Zork II
- Zork III
- Zork Zero
In addition, six award-winning amateur adventures are included as well as some old Infocom staff e-mail:
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Average score: 87% (based on 4 ratings)
Players
Average score: 4.2 out of 5 (based on 12 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
All of the Infocom classics are reproduced on this CD with scans of the hint books and the documentation/maps in PDF format. The games are all top notch text adventures, and the price is right.
The Bad
Many infocom games are copy protected by referring to parts of the game manuals and props. Unfortunately, the scanned reproductions are of very low quality, and in some games (notably Starcross and Infidel) it is almost impossible to read the coordinates you need to get into the game. Worst of all, in Spellbreaker, they forgot to put in a few of the Enchanter cards, making it possible to get almost to the end of the game before you find out that you gave the wrong answer and you will have to start over. The entire PDF is only 40MB, they could have scanned the manuals in at a higher quality.
The Bottom Line
This is a compilation of all of the classic Infocom text adventures. The games are identical to the originals, but the documentation is unfortunately a low-quality scan, which is almost inadeqate to finish some of the games.
DOS · by Droog (460) · 2001
Trivia
Amateur games
The six "bonus" games included weren't by Infocom but rather were the top three games in the Inform and TADS divisions of the 1995 rec.arts.interactive-fiction IF competition, produced by amateurs on the way up.
Missing games
The only two text-adventure games that do not appear on this CD are The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Clavell's Shogun. Probably they do not appear due to lapse of the license to sell them.
Technology
All the games were re-compiled to launch from a single exe. This had the effect of no longer requiring ANSI.SYS in the config file.
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Contributors to this Entry
Game added by Tony Van.
Macintosh added by Corn Popper.
Additional contributors: nullnullnull, Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe, Patrick Bregger.
Game added January 9, 2000. Last modified April 17, 2024.