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From: ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman)
Subject: Re: Meretzky's weakest game?
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 17:27:00 GMT
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Andrew Clover (ajc@doggysft.demon.co.uk) wrote:
:  I suppose I'd have to agree, if only because Sorceror features the worst
: Infocom room description I've encountered:

: Frobar's Quarters
: This is the room of Frobar the Enchanter. There isn't much here in the way
: of furnishings, Frobar being a pretty dull kind of guy.

Infocom rarely had room descriptions this cheesy.  In this example,
"Sorcerer" approaches the banal blandness so characteristic in "Detective."
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C.E. Forman                                      ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
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