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On Fri, 31 May 2013 22:02:16 -0700 (PDT), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, Robert Perrett wrote: 

>Hi Everyone,
>
>I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid 90's. Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start off with? Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?
>
>Robert

I take it you're a novice and you're looking for an easier game to
introduce yourself to Infocom. Wishbringer is an excellent start that
will have you graduating to Zork in no time. It contains most of the
basic skills needed in the other, more involved games.

My favorite on that disk is Trinity, but it is difficult. Well worth
playing once you get your sea legs.

For a completely different experience, Nord and Bert is more a wordplay
game, and A Mind Forever Voyaging is more a freeform experiment than a
goal-driven game (though you can still win, sort of). You may or may not
like AMFV, it's a love-hate sort of game.

Suspended is very interesting as well, but also very hard. You actually
control robots to do your bidding in that game, and you can almost
imagine that you are the controller in his suspension chamber. For
Sci-Fi, Planetfall is probably the easiest regular level game. Starcross
is just brutal.

Enjoy them all. One last note: The mystery game Deadline is probably the
most terrible as far as difficulty goes, IMHO.

-- 
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten

Here, Robert Perrett <rtperrett@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid
> 90's. Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start
> off with? Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?

A side note: Gargoyle (http://code.google.com/p/garglk/) is a free
interpreter that plays most of the Infocom data files with a nicer UI
than the CD provides.

(There are many other interpreter options, too.)

Also, my quick reference card for IF commands:
http://pr-if.org/doc/play-if-card/

--Z

-- 
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*

> "Robert Perrett"  wrote

> Hi Everyone,

> I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid 90's. 
> Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start off with? 
> Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?

I have fond memories of 'Hollywood Hijinx', 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos' 
and 'Bureaucracy'.

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' was the best though (for DA fans 
anyway).

If that's not on there, I'm pretty sure it's free to play online anyway. 

Here, Vince <vince@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> > "Robert Perrett"  wrote
> 
> > Hi Everyone,
> 
> > I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid 90's. 
> > Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start off with? 
> > Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?
> 
> I have fond memories of 'Hollywood Hijinx', 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos' 
> and 'Bureaucracy'.
> 
> 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' was the best though (for DA fans 
> anyway).
> 
> If that's not on there, I'm pretty sure it's free to play online anyway. 

It's not on the CD. It's on the official Douglas Adams web site as a
Java applet: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

(We believe the publication rights reverted to Adams before the
Masterpieces CD was published.)

One could probably also find the game file (hhgg.z3) floating around
the Internet in the usual not-really-legal way.

There used to be an "enhanced" version on the BBC site (same text,
plus illustrations) but it seems to have died of web neglect.

--Z

-- 
"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
*

On 2013-06-01, Robert Perrett wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid 90's.
> Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start off with?
> Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?
>
> Robert

If you have read the book then the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy should
not be *all* that hard... I thought it was a marvellous game.

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On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 09:15:16 +0000 (UTC), in
comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure, Giorgos Tzampanakis wrote: 

>On 2013-06-01, Robert Perrett wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I got Infocom Classic Text Masterpieces CD-rom released in the mid 90's.
>> Which one of these classic text masterpieces should I start off with?
>> Seastalker or Wishbringer or something else?
>>
>> Robert
>
>If you have read the book then the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy should
>not be *all* that hard... I thought it was a marvellous game.

The babel fish puzzle, and the hints in the Invisiclues for that matter,
is brilliant.

-- 
Zag

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had
spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten