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Spalls Hurgenson  <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I still have my Zorkmid, but unfortunately all the rest of my Infocom
>goodies have been lost over the years. Those boxes were great, but
>very bulky. I /loved/ the cardboard peril-sensitive "sunglasses" that
>came with Hitchhikers Guide ;-)

Of the three Infocom games I own, Suspended, Hitchhiker's Guide to
the Galaxy, and Planetfall, I still have all the feelies except two.
Unfortunatetly they're thy're two of most imporant ones, the Don't
Panic button that game with HHGTG that I used to display proudly on my
backpack at highscool, and the vinyl tokens that came with Suspended.
The button fell off my backpack at some point, while I'm not sure where
the tokens went.  They might be still around somewhere, stuck in some
box for "safekeeping".  On the other hand, I still have my Stellar Patrol
Special Assignment Task Force ID card from Panetfall in my wallet.

Oh, and I think Suspended was the first computer game I bought with my
own money.

>"Zork" aside, of all the Infocom games I probably enjoyed "Journey"
>and "Crescent Hawk's Revenge" the most. "Journey" really wasn't much
>of a game - it was more of an interactive novel - but it was a
>charming fantasy story and had impressive graphics for the time.
>"Crescent Hawk's Revenge" was a big departure for the company, being
>more of an action-RPG, utilising the Battletech license.

BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception is my favourite Infocom game,
althought they only published it.  It was Westwood Associates of Command
& Conquer fame who deveoped it.  I was never any good at Infocom's
interactive finction games, so I can't say I'm a huge fan of them.
I think I might have managed to finish HHGTTG, but the only game I'm
sure I finished was Pundered Hearts, and that was because I played with
two other people sitting around a computer terminal.

					Ross Ridge

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