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Moby ID: 49229

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Jason Scott's documentary about interactive fiction comes with two DVDs. The first disc contains the main feature (itself featuring one big Choose-Your-Own-Adventure interactive plot fork), while the second is dedicated to extras, bonus footage and a DVD-ROM section featuring numerous freeware text adventures with included interpreters for Linux, Macintosh and Windows, including:

Also included are numerous interpreter programs for the various platform-independent virtual machines (TADS, Z-code, Hugo and Glulx) most of the amateur games included were written for as well as Windows and Mac emulators for the handful of Apple II and Amstrad CPC also present.

Credits (Windows version)

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  • Will Crowther (ADVENTURE)
  • Jeremy Freese (Violet)
  • Frank Fridd (Colditz Escape and Sound of Him and Great-Great-Grandfather's Gold and Smuggler)
  • Stephen Granade (Arrival or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés and Child's Play and Losing Your Grip)
  • Sean Huxter (Piracy 2.0)
  • Jon Ingold (Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me)
  • Dennis G. Jerz (ADVENTURE)
  • Juhana Leinonen (Escapade! and Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma)
  • Jimmy Maher (The King of Shreds and Patches)
  • Peter Mattsson (Across The Stars - The Ralckor Incident)
  • Nick Montfort (Ad Verbum and Book and Volume and Winchester's Nightmare)
  • Marius Müller (The Lighthouse)
  • Jim Munroe (Everybody Dies)
  • Mark J. Musante (A Simple Theft and A Simple Theft 2: A Simple Theftier)
  • Paul O'Brian (LASH - Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup and Earth and Sky Episodes 1-3)
  • Ben Parrish (Annoyotron)
  • Jonathan Partington (Acheton)
  • Andrew Plotkin (The Dreamhold and Hunter in Darkness and Shade and Spider and Web)
  • David Seal (Acheton)
  • Robb Sherwin (Fallacy of Dawn and Necrotic Drift and Pantomime and No Time To Squeal)
  • Dan Shiovitz (Bad Machine and Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus)
  • Emily Short (Bronze and Galatea and Savoir Faire and Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus)
  • Mike Sousa (Above and Beyond! and Friendly Foe and The Recruit and No Time To Squeal and Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me and At Wit's End)
  • Dark Star - Across The Stars - The Ralckor Incident
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Game added November 24, 2010. Last modified August 28, 2023.