Trivia
The premise and setting (radically recast as "PUE Tech") are revisited in Jason Davis's 1991 Amstrad CPC text adventure The Smirking Horror, written with the "Graphic Adventure Creator" (GAC).
"It's late, it's dark and an absolute blizzard is raging outside. What more could you possibly want? Finishing your assignment might be a good start but as you know one thing invariably leads to another..."
The college you find yourself at is George Underwood Edwards Tech, aka GUE Tech. GUE was the abbreviation for the Great Underground Empire from the Zork series, also published by Infocom.
Copy protection for the game required the user to input the correct Student ID number and password into a computer terminal. Don't have the ID card or Student Guide? Try random 9-digit sequences and 9-letter words that don't appear in Webster's. You'll get it eventually, I'm sure.
G.U.E. Tech was based on M.I.T., the alma matter of most of Infocom's employee's. Locations in the game are similar, along with various M.I.T. slang.
Lurking Horror featured sound for certain systems (like Amiga). Do you want your version of LH to have sound? You can get the missing sound files and a utility to upgrade your .DAT file. It is available via anonymous ftp from ftp.gmd.de at if-archive/infocom/missing-files, and the file is called LHSOUND.ZIP.
Contributed by
Belboz 
(6609) on Jul 13, 2000.
(From the Infocom Home Page site)
It contained "G.U.E. at a Glance" (G.U.E. Tech guide), a G.U.E. Tech student ID card, and a red rubber centipede (between 2 sheets of clear plastic).
Contributed by
Tony Van (2707) on Nov 25, 1999.
