infocom/articles/Index

Magazine articles and similar about Infocom and its works,
mostly dating from when Infocom was active.

Note: The `*-text` files were uploaded by Infocom employee
Stu Galley from his private archive (read: attic).

# old

Older, less good copies of some of the files in this directory.

# AmigaWorld86.txt

Two articles from AmigaWorld January/February 1986,
pages 70-73, transcribed by Kirk Davies:

- The Wizard of Wishbringer -
"A totally objective, highly critical and unbiased
interview with Infocom game designer Brian Moriarty,
by Brian Moriarty."

- Tour of a Dream Factory -
A visitor's description of Infocom, by Bob Liddil

# BYTE_1981-02_Zork_Advert.pdf

Zork Advert, from Byte February 1981.

# BYTE_1981-02_Zork_Product_Review.pdf

Review of Zork by Bob Liddil, from Byte February 1981.

# Dan_Horn_interview.mp3

ANTIC Interview 88 with Dan Horn, technical director
at Infocom. Hosted by Randy Kindig, Kevin Savetz and
Brad Arnold.

# Discover_March1984.pdf

"Games With a Real Byte To Them," by Gary Taubes,
published in the March 1984 issue of Discover
magazine.

# Enchanter_Ahoy_Mar84.pdf

Review of Enchanter, from Ahoy March 1984.

# Family_Computing_Apr88_Beyond_Zork.pdf

Review of Beyond Zork, from Family Computing April 1988.

# Family_Computing_Dec86_Disk_Drive_Detectives.pdf

"Disk Drive Detectives: Make Fiction Come Alive with
Mystery Games", by Shay Addams. Features "Deadline,"
"The Witness," "Ballyhoo," and other games. From Family
Computing December 1986.

# Family_Computing_Dec87_Stationfall.jpg

Review of Stationfall, from Family Computing December 1987.

# Family_Computing_Feb87_Trinity.jpg

Review of Trinity, from Family Computing February 1987.

# Family_Computing_Jun84_Blank_Berlyn_interview.pdf

"The Hard-Boiled School of Software: An Interview with
Marc Blank and Mike Berlyn of Infocom",
from Family Computing June 1984.

# Family_Computing_Jun84_Suspended.pdf

Review of Suspended, from Family Computing June 1984.

# Family_Computing_Jun85_Hitchhikers_Guide.jpg

Review of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from
Family Computing June 1985.

# Family_Computing_Jun85_Wander_into_Wonderland.pdf

"Wander Into Wonderland: Adventure Games Take You on a
Vacation to a Place as Vivid as Your Imagination." An
article about the appeal of adventure games, with an
emphasis on Infocom. Also includes a sidebar interview
with Douglas Adams. From Family Computing June 1985.

# Family_Computing_May87_Moonmist.jpg

Review of Moonmist, from Family Computing May 1987.

# Family_Computing_Sep83_Zork1.pdf

Review of Zork 1, from Family Computing September 1983.

# Games.87

They Take the High-Tech Route to Adventure,
by Burt Hochberg
from Games magazine August/September 1987

# GamingWorld91.txt

Excerpt from A History of Computer Games, by Johnny Wilson
from Computer Gaming World, November 1991

# Globe84-text

Masters of the Game, by Richard Dyer
from "The Boston Globe" Magazine, May 6, 1984

# NYT83-text

Participatory Novels, by Edward Rothstein
from The New York Times BOOK REVIEW, May 8, 1983

# NZT-Briggs.txt

Infocom's First Romance: Plundered Hearts author
Amy Briggs talks about why she chose to write an
interactive romance
from The Status Line, Winter 1987, page 9
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-Fooblitzky.txt

Fooblitzky Keeps Puzzle-Solvers Busy
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1986, pages 1 and 5
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-GUEtech.txt

Is It GUE Tech or MIT? Dave Lebling Explains It...
from The Status Line, Winter/Spring 1988, page 5
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-InfoBets-text

How much you wanna bet? Dinner in Paris or Tokyo -
A history of InfoBets (anonymous)   and
California Academy of Sciences debuts 'Marathon of the
Minds', by Stu Galley
from The Status Line, Winter/Spring 1987

# NZT-Sandusky-text

Upper Sandusky: No, it's not on Lake Erie and there
isn't a Joe's, by Steve Meretzky
from The Status Line, Fall 1987

# NZT-Sasha-text

Sasha Blunderbraas: Prime Virtuosa, by S. Eric Merescu
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985

# NZT-Suspect.txt

Suspect Author Suspected, by Dave Lebling
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 8
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-Witness-text

How "The Witness" Came to Be 
from The New Zork Times, Summer 1984

# NZT-ZQ-text

Good-Bye to The Status Line, Hello to ZQ (Zork Quarterly)

# NZT-Zorkhistory.txt

Three articles on the history of Zork, transcribed by
Graeme Cree:

- The History of Zork - First in a Series, by
Tim Anderson, from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985,
pages 6-7 and 11
- The History of Zork - Second in a Series, by
Tim Anderson, from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985,
pages 3-5
- The History of Zork - The Final (?) Chapter: MIT,
MDL, ZIL, ZIP; by Stu Galley, from The New Zork Times,
Summer 1985, pages 4-5

# NZT-advice.txt

A collection of New Zork Times advice columns,
transcribed by Graeme Cree:

- Ask Duffy, from Summer 1984, page 5
- Ask Jennifer, from Winter 1985, page 5
- Dear Miss Underground Manners, from The Status Line,
Fall 1986, page 2

# NZT-answers.txt

Frank Answers to the Ten Most Frequently Asked Questions
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1984, page 1-2
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-atomic-text

How I Spent My Summer Vacation, by Brian Moriarty
from ****, Spring 1986
from The Status Line, Spring 1989

# NZT-falcon.txt

The Shrinkwrapped Falcon, by A. Dashiell Meretzky
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1985, page 3
typed in by Dave Robeson

# NZT-gamedev.txt

Inside Look at Game Development
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984, page 4
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-horoscope.txt

A collection of New Zork Times horoscopes,
transcribed by Graeme Cree:

- Infocom Horoscope, from Spring 1984, page 3
- Your Weekly Horoscope by Omar, from The Status Line,
Summer 1986, page 2

# NZT-music.txt

Music From the Great Underground Empire
(reprinted from U.S. News and Dungeon Report, 9/18/951)
from The New Zork Times, Spring 1985, page 8
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-name-text

A Zork By Any Other Name 
from The New Zork Times, Winter 1984

# NZT-parser.txt

Parser??? by Stu Galley
from The Status Line, Spring 1989, page 2
transcribed by Graeme Cree

# NZT-testing-text

They're never satisfied, by Dave Lebling
from The New Zork Times, Fall 1984

# Newsweek85-text

Lost in Computer Fiction, by Bill Barol
from Newsweek, December 23, 1985

# PCjoker92.txt

Ein offenes Gespraech mit Steve Meretzky (German)
interview from PC Joker 5/92 (September/October 1992)

# PCjoker94.txt

Ein offenes Gespraech mit Infocom (German)
an interview with Eddie Dombrower and William D. Volk,
the makers of Return to Zork
from PC Joker 2/94 (February 1994)

# PCjoker95.txt

Ein offenes Gespraech mit Bob Bates (German)
interview from PC Joker 7/8'95 (July/August 1995)

# Post83-text

Through the Zorking Glass, by Curt Suplee
from The Washington Post, December 22, 1983

# PowerPlay.91

Schmiede der Legenden (German)
an interview with Bob Bates, from Power Play 12/91

# PowerPlayHHGTTG.txt

An interview with Douglas Adams about
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, from
Commodore Power/Play, April/May 1985

# Practical82.txt

Zork - Magic Meets Science Fiction, by Peter Fitch
from Practical Computing, April 1982

# Suspended_Ahoy_Jan84.pdf

Review of Suspended, from Ahoy January 1984.

# Time83-text

Putting Fiction on a Floppy, by Philip Elmer-De Witt
from TIME, December 5, 1983

# YC-87.txt

Infocom Special by Roger Garret, from Your Computer
March 1987, and Profile: Infocom's Dave Lebling by
Mike Gerrard, from Your Computer May 1987
typed in by Torbjoern Andersson

# Your64.txt

A review of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy",
from Your 64, July 1985. Typed in by David Kinder

# articles.zip

Articles by and interviews with Infocom writers
compiled by Paul David Doherty. Contents:

- IEEE Computer, 1979: "Zork: A Computerized Fantasy
Simulation Game" by Lebling/Blank/Anderson
- Creative Computing, 1980: "How to Fit a Large Program
Into a Small Machine" by Blank/Galley
- Byte, 1980: "Zork and the Future of Computerized
Fantasy Simulations" by Lebling
- Mike Gerrard's Lebling Interview (1987)
- Paul Rigby's Moriarty Interview
- New Zork Times, 1985: "The History of Zork" by
Anderson/Galley

# globe.890522

Computer-Games Firm Moving to California, by Ronald
Rosenberg.  From Boston Globe, Monday May 22, 1989

# infidel.txt

INFIDEL (Infocom) vs SANDS OF EGYPT (Datasoft)
Reviewed by Michael Blanchet.
From Computer Games, July/August 1984
typed in by Joe Barlow

# scheyen-articles.zip

Articles about Infocom and the Implementors, 1982-1999. Collected by
Peter Scheyen at <http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/>; now mirrored at
<http://infocom.elsewhere.org/scheyen/Articles/>:

- "EXEC INFOCOM: Adventures in Excellence" by Roe R. Adams. Softalk Magazine, October 1982, pages 35-40. [softalk.html]
- "Marc Blank: The Programmer Behind Zork" by Cathy Yakal. COMPUTE's Gazette, October 1983, Vol. 1, No. 4. [blank.html]
- "Solving Electronic Adventures" by Roe R. Adams III. In Games Magazine, June, 1984, pages 52-53. [solving.html]
- "The Wizards of Infocom" by Shay Addams. Computer Games, February 1984, pages 34-37, 52. [wizards.html]
- "The Challenge of Zork" by Tracie Forman. Electronic Games, ???? [challenge.html]
- "The Infinitely Improbable Doug Adams" by Roe R. Adams III. Electronic Games, April, 1985, pages 22-25, 78, 80-81. [dna.html]
- "if yr cmptr cn rd ths..." by Shay Addams. Computer Entertainment, August, 1985, pages 24-27 & 76-77. [parser-war.html]
- "Beyond Zork: An intimate look at Infocom, Inc." by Clayton Walnum. ANALOG Computing, March 1987, #52, pages 46-51. [infocom-tour.html]
- "Adventure Playground: Infocom's Dave Lebling" by Mike Gerrard. Your Computer, May 1987. [yc87b.html]
- "Like a Lemming To Lebling" by Nik Wild. GAMES Magazine, December/January 1987/1988. [tgm.html]
- "Adventures at Infocom" by Russ Ceccola. Commodore Magazine, January 1988, pages 70-73, 118-119. [adventures.html]
- "The Renaissance of Amiga Games" by Tom Malcom. Cyberplay, April 1992, pp 26 - 27. [amiga92.html]
- "The Lost Treasures of Infocom" by Andy Nuttall. Amiga Format, ????. [amigaformat.html]
- "The Infocom Adventure" by Theo Clarke. Strategy Plus, ????. [strategyplus.html]
- "This Ain't Your Daddy's Game" by Matthew A Firme. PC Gamer(?), pp 28 - 29. [daddy.html]
- "On location in the Great Underground Empire" by Johnny L Wilson. Computer Gaming World, February 1993, pages 19-21. [cgw93.html]
- "Where Are They Now?" by Steven Greenlee. Computer Game Review, April 1996, pages 82-88. [where.html]
- "Don't Panic - Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Neil Gaiman. Titan Books, pages 150-156. [Douglas.html]
- Game Gods: Steve Meretzky. PC Gamer, September 1999, pages 80-81. [meretzky.html]

# trinityCG.txt

Review of Trinity, from Compute!'s Gazette, March
1987. Scanned in by Patrick Kellum.

# zzap64.txt

Four Minds Forever Voyaging, by Sean Masterson
(interviews with Dave Lebling, Steve Meretzky,
Stu Galley, and Carl Genatossio)
from ZZAP! 64; typed in by Hans Persson

# invisiclues-articles.zip

A collection of articles concerning Infocom, hosted at <https://invisiclues.org/library>. Collected and transcribed by Steve Derby, and archived here with his kind permission. This package contains only the article texts, formatted as Markdown.

# invisiclues-articles-images.zip

A collection of articles concerning Infocom, hosted at <https://invisiclues.org/library>. Collected and transcribed by Steve Derby, and archived here with his kind permission. This package contains the article texts and the accompanying images (screenshots, etc).