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* [http://www.infocom-if.org/ Infocom: The Master Storytellers] - Extensive material on Infocom. | * [http://www.infocom-if.org/ Infocom: The Master Storytellers] - Extensive material on Infocom. | ||
* [http://www.if-legends.org/~pdd/infocom/fact-sheet.txt Infocom Fact Sheet] - History, list of all game versions etc. | * [http://www.if-legends.org/~pdd/infocom/fact-sheet.txt Infocom Fact Sheet] - History, list of all game versions etc. | ||
* [http://mit.edu/6.933/www/Fall2000/infocom/ Down From the Top of Its Game - The Story of Infocom, Inc.] A detailed report by Hector Briceño, Wesley Chao, Andrew Glenn, Stanley Hu, Ashwin Krishnamurthy, and Bruce Tsuchida. | |||
* [http://wurb.com/if/company/1 Infocom games on Baf's Guide] | * [http://wurb.com/if/company/1 Infocom games on Baf's Guide] | ||
* [http://www.xyzzynews.com//infocombugs.html The Infocom Bugs List] by [[Graeme Cree]]. | * [http://www.xyzzynews.com//infocombugs.html The Infocom Bugs List] by [[Graeme Cree]]. | ||
Revision as of 19:58, 13 March 2005
A US company that sold interactive fiction. It was formed by ten members of MIT's Dynamic Modelling group in 1979. Best known for the games Zork and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the company merged with another game company, Activision, in 1986. In 1989 Activision effectively dissolved what was left of Infocom. One of the seminal IF companies of the 1980s, and responsible for the Z-machine.
(Definition by SG)
Links
- Infocom: The Master Storytellers - Extensive material on Infocom.
- Infocom Fact Sheet - History, list of all game versions etc.
- Down From the Top of Its Game - The Story of Infocom, Inc. A detailed report by Hector Briceño, Wesley Chao, Andrew Glenn, Stanley Hu, Ashwin Krishnamurthy, and Bruce Tsuchida.
- Infocom games on Baf's Guide
- The Infocom Bugs List by Graeme Cree.
- Infocom Trivia Quiz by Graeme Cree. From XYZZYnews #5.
- You Know You've Played Too Much Infocom When... by Doug Atkinson. From XYZZYnews #6.
- Infocom index at MobyGames - MobyGames is a computer games documentation and review site.