Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces

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Description

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:

• A Change in the Weather
• The Magic Toyshop
• The Mind Electric
• The One That Got Away
• Toonesia
• Uncle Zebulon's Will

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Alternate Titles

• "Masterpieces of Infocom" -- Informal title
• "Infocom Masterpieces" -- Informal title

Part of the Following Groups

• Game Engine: TADS
• Infocom compilations
• Z-Code

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DOS

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Critic Reviews

All Game Guide	Macintosh	1998		90
Game Revolution	DOS	Oct 19, 1996	B+	83
GameSpot	DOS	Oct 03, 1996	7.5 out of 10	75
Online Gaming Review (OGR)	DOS	Aug 14, 1996	Unscored	Unscored

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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.

Information also contributed by Pseudo_Intellectual

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• Infocom Fan Page (At this site you can find information on ALL of Infocom's interactive games, Infocom related articles, sample transcripts, InvisiClue hints, walkthroughs, maps and information on buying Infocom games today.)