Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces

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Published by

Activision, Inc.

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Released

Platforms

Genre

Non-Sport

Detective / Mystery, Horror, Interactive Fiction, Interactive Fiction with Graphics, Medieval / Fantasy, Puzzle-Solving, Sci-Fi / Futuristic

Misc

Compilation / Shovelware

	MobyRank	MobyScore
DOS	...	3.7

Macintosh	...	...

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Trivia

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, passing their commercial IF mentors here on their way out of the building.

These games were:

Contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual (34048) on Jun 24, 2006.

The only 2 text-adventure games that do not appear on this CD are Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Shogun. I assume they do not appear due to lapse of the license to sell them.

All the games were re-compiled to launch from a single exe. This had the plesent effect of no longer requiring ANSI.SYS in the config file.

Contributed by Tony Van (2707) on Jan 09, 2000.

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