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Nearly 4000 Infocom documents and materials provided by Steve Meretzky now available online.
I’m a big fan of digital archivist Jason Scott who produced and directed an amazingly comprehensive documentary on text adventures, GET LAMP. Scott came across a lot of cool materials during the development of that film and no one provided a better all-inclusive record of Infocom than its star designer Steven Meretzky.
Photographs and downloads of these Kubrick-like records are available here: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4834
Scott will be gradually rolling out these materials online through Archive.org but there’s already a wealth of interesting photos and papers to look through!
Coooool!!
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.
Roberta Williams
Karlok, are you around? Reading it all? 
That is immense! Some interesting stuff like the sales data:
Well, sex sells
Some cool ads:
And of course, cheap shots: )
The design documents of the games would probably be a lot interesting for someone that has played the games.
Karlok, are you around? Reading it all?
I’m around, but not much time for games at the moment. Looks interesting though.
That is immense! Some interesting stuff like the sales data:
Haven’t browsed any documents yet, but I find it hard to believe those sales figures are correct. US only? Just one year? I remember the Infocom days very well, I got interested in text adventures (and Sierra games) around 1986 and they were very popular in Holland, you could buy them in most book stores. I paid around 75-100 Dutch guilders for an Infocom game. And that’s A LOT OF MONEY. Might be one reason I hate it when people whine about spending 5 dollars on a Steam game they didn’t like.
Yeah, sex sells. 
The sex in Leather Goddesses is tame though. Even by 1986 standards.
Wilco, you should have a look at the old The New Zork Times. Great read.
I still think it’s incredibly childish of the New York Times to demand that Infocom changed its name.
See you around, wolf. Nerissa
Haven’t browsed any documents yet, but I find it hard to believe those sales figures are correct. US only? Just one year? I remember the Infocom days very well, I got interested in text adventures (and Sierra games) around 1986 and they were very popular in Holland, you could buy them in most book stores. I paid around 75-100 Dutch guilders for an Infocom game. And that’s A LOT OF MONEY. Might be one reason I hate it when people whine about spending 5 dollars on a Steam game they didn’t like.
Yeah, sex sells.
The sex in Leather Goddesses is tame though. Even by 1986 standards.
It’s a bit confusing but there is lots of sales data in there. I think these ones are yearly. I guess Zork and Hitchhiker’s would be some of their greatest all-time sellers.
Wilco, you should have a look at the old The New Zork Times.
I still think it’s incredibly childish of the New York Times to demand that Infocom changed its name.
Going to look it, thanks. (Found them although Google was also trying to censor it and change the search to New York Times…)
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