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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: WANTED: Your thoughts on fantasy I-F
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Steven Howard (blore@ibm.net) wrote:
> >What's everyone's prognosis for such "mundane" works?  Does the medium
> >fare well without magic?

> Okay, just from "Masterpieces" we have the following (a few are 
> questionable):  Ballyhoo, Border Zone, Bureaucracy, Cutthroats,
> Deadline, Hollywood Hijinx, Infidel, Plundered Hearts, Sherlock,
> Suspect and Witness.  I haven't played Moonmist, so I don't know
> if it qualifies or not.  Still, that's roughly a third of the
> Infocom games which are neither fantasy nor science fiction, and
> two of my favorites (Plundered Hearts and Bureaucracy, for those
> keeping score at home) are on the list.

I'd say Bureaucracy is reality exaggerated into fantasy.

But add Wedding, a recent upload to GDM which I just finished last night. 
Nice work, and entirely real-world. (Well, it *contains* science fiction 
elements, but not the way you mean. :-)

--Z

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