A Mind Forever Voyaging
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| A Mind Forever Voyaging | |
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| Author(s) | Steve Meretzky |
| Publisher(s) | Infocom, Activision |
| Release date(s) | 1985 |
| Authoring system | ZIL |
| Platform(s) | Z-code 4 |
| Language(s) | English |
| License(s) | Commercial |
| Multimedia | |
| Color effects | none |
| Graphics | none |
| Sound/Music | none |
| Ratings | |
| Cruelty scale | Cruelty to be determined |
A disappointing sales draw for Infocom during its release in 1985, Steve Meretzky's A Mind Forever Voyaging has gained steady respect in the decades hence. It is now considered by some to be one of the true classics of the early Interactive Fiction form, and far ahead of its time in terms of subject matter, approach to storytelling, and quality of writing.
Strongly political in nature, the game initially contained almost no puzzles, but added them after testing revealed confusion about the lack of them.
The title derives from Book III of The Prelude by William Wordsworth (1850): "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone."
Meretzky compiled a number of relevant quotes and texts from a large variety of sources, including Shakespeare, Byron, Tennyson, and so on; in his original communications he suggested the title "A Mind Forever Voyaging" as well as others:
- My Mind to Me A Kingdom Is
- Deep Into That Darkness Peering
- In Worlds Not Realized
- But I Go On Forever
- Look Into the Seeds of Time
How It Begins
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Notable Features
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Trivia and Comments
- Often refered to by the initialism AMFV.
- Inspired Potsticker (Nick Montfort; 2000; Z-code), entered in Speed-IF 13.
Versions
Infocom releases
- A Mind Forever Voyaging (Steve Meretzky; publisher: Infocom; 1985; Z-code 4).
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Activision releases
- A Mind Forever Voyaging is included on the following Activision collections:
- The Lost Treasures of Infocom Volume II
- The Infocom Collections: The Sci-Fi Collection
- Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom
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Links
General info
- A Mind Forever Voyaging - at Peter Scheyen's Infocom Homepage.
- A Mind Forever Voyaging manual in PDF format - at The Infocom Documentation Project.
- A Mind Forever Voyaging - at Wikipedia.
A Mind Forever Voyaging- at Home of the Underdogs. (Replace this line with the new hotud game template. Look up new hotud ID numbers at http://www.hotud.org/component/jreviews/search-results/?cat=45 .).
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Reviews
- A Mind Forever Voyaging - at SPAG.
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