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From: svanegmo@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Stephen van Egmond)
Subject: Re: Infocom Adventures
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In article <445j5i$hgk@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>,
Thom Bone <thombone@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>WHA?!?!? I have heard of almost none of these games and I have BOTH
>LTOI I & II!

You needn't worry.   I'll give you a run down of the games I know of:

>In <444j3k$2k5@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> yamanish@ix.netcom.com (David
>Yamanishi) writes: 
>>	Leather Goddesses of Phobos

Heard that it's rather good (don't have it).

>>	Leather Goddesses of Phobos II

Heard that it's really really bad.

>>	Fooblitzky

Don't know anything about it.  Anyone?

>>	Simon the Sorcerer
>>	Mines of Titan
>>	Circuit's Edge

I think these were released on platforms that were neither Mac nor IBM.  
I could use more detail for the FAQ.  Anyone?

>>	Battletech

Not a text adventure.  It's a strategic simulation, with a very strong 
component of just walking around blowing up everything in sight.

>>	(Games not mentioned above, all post-Mediagenic buyout)
>>	Return to Zork

Graphical, Myst- or 7th_Guest-like.  Doesn't have the degree of 
playability as the text adventures (despite being shipped on a CD-ROM), 
and I've heard many complaints about the interface.

>>	Return to Zork: Nemesis (upcoming)
>>	Planetfall (upcoming)

I've heard them called Zork:Nemesis and Planetfall II, respectively.

>>	Zork Quest: Assault on Egreth Castle
>>	Zork Quest: The Crystal of Doom
>>	Gamma Force in the Pit of a Thousand Screams
>>	Lane Mastodon vs. the Blubbermen

Infocomics, nothing more than comics you look at on your screen.  They 
can hardly be called interactive, beyond the sense that pressing the 
space bar in "more" is interactive.


>>
>>	Also not mentioned above was Quarterstaff, which may only have
>been 
>>released for the Mac. Does anyone know if this ever came out for the
>PC?

I don't think it was.

/Steve

