Infocom Adventure Collection

by Activision

Product Features

• Includes Border Zone, Cutthroats, Infidel, Plundered Hearts, Trinity, Planetfall, and Zork III.

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000051ZT0
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #32,102 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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In the days before the Internet, in the days before Nintendo--heck, in the days before graphics--gamers spent hours in the interactive fictional worlds of Infocom. Now these classics are back. If you've never played an Infocom game before, think this: Myst, only without the pretty pictures. The gamer interacts with the game via text commands, and the world is visualized within the gamer's own imagination.

Whether you enjoy pulp noir, high fantasy, comedy, Lovecraftian horror, hard science fiction, spies, action-adventure, or a genre-blending mix, Infocom has a superbly written game for you.

The Infocom Adventure Collection contains the following classic adventures:

• Border Zone
• Cutthroats
• Infidel
• Plundered Hearts
• Trinity (includes: Planetfall, Zork 3)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, if you know what you're getting..., December 7, 2000

By 

"seth2" (Cedar Rapids, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infocom Adventure Collection (CD-ROM)

These games are ten, maybe even fifteen years old in some cases. If you've never heard of Infocom or these games before, you're probably going to be disappointed in them.

On the other hand, if your first computer was an Apple II, Commodore 64, or a TRS 80, this collection is quite a kick of nostalgia. I grew up on these games and they're what inspired me into computers as a career. I sank hundreds of hours of my childhood into these wonderful adventures, which I still consider very fun and somewhat challenging today. Some of them bring a tear to my eye reminding me of all the fun I had.

If you can relate to this feeling, you might enjoy some of these games. They are broad, immersive, and fun, if quite antiquated. They are all text. No graphics at all. The world you are set in is described a paragraph at a time in a beauty that can't be explained or compared to today's games.

I played these games when I was about 12 to 14 years old. However, I don't think they would make a good gift for a child today unless that child has a real passion for reading. This would make a better gift for that quirky older guy you know that builds his own computers and lives in his basement. The nostalgia value of these games is immense.

It's also easy to get stuck in these games, and since it's doubtful your friends are also playing them, it can be hard to get help. There are, however, ample resources on the internet from other nostalgics. You just need to look.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The most amazing collection of games, ever!, August 8, 2003

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sigfpe "sigfpe" (Oakland, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infocom Adventure Collection (CD-ROM)

Really. Most of these games, individually, is worth paying a substantial sum of money for. These are classic text adventure games. Each one is rich and complex for those of us who are happy to play with words rather than pictures. They are clever, humorous, twisted, atmospheric, frustrating, tense, difficult and fiendish. This collection is damn hard to get hold of. Get hold of it if you can.

On the down side: these games originally game as individual boxed sets complete with maps and other 'feelies'. In this set they come as low quality scans in a PDF document. They lack colour and in some cases the detail required to solve the game. In one case essential information for the game is in fact missing from the PDF.

Note: contrary to what some other reviews might say, for legal reasons this collection contains neither Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy nor Shogun.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great set of games!, May 24, 2001

By 

J. Burlein "BwanaJoe" (Wesley Chapel, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infocom Adventure Collection (CD-ROM)

If you like to READ more than you like to watch TV, then these are the games for you. Infocom put out some of the best adventure games in the days before graphics. That's correct, no graphics. Everything must be pictured in your head. Basically infocom's products are games for the mind. They challenge you to use your IMAGINATION to figure out a vast array of puzzles, not just point and click your way around pretty graphics. Some of them are better than others, but overall, you can't go wrong for 10 bucks.