[bernds74]

Well, clicked on it thinking it might be about an old favourite Infocom game, but apparently it appears to be about an old favourite Firaxis game...

Are you the author of the web site? Please make sure the PgDn key works for scrolling through the page. At the moment it switches images which are just barely on the screen.

[glimshe]

I was also here for Infocom! Will the knowledge of the old classics die with us?

[reaperducer]

I was also here for Infocom! Will the knowledge of the old classics die with us?

For all of our modern-day high-powered GPU babble, the Infocom games still have the best graphics possible.

I recently started playing Zork I again on a C-64 emulator, and it really holds up.

The key is to play like you would in the old days: No distractions. Be patient and thoughtful. And actually read everything on the screen, instead of skimming the text.

Since we're now trained to have the attention spans of methed-out ferrets, it can be hard. My tips are to turn the phone completely off, put it in another room, and turn down the lights. Also, do you map by hand on grid paper with a pencil.

Lately, I've seen people bragging about video games providing value because they take 40 or 50 hours to complete. An Infocom game could easily take days, weeks, or months to really explore and appreciate thoroughly.

[anton-c]

I plan on making a video on zork. I'm sure there's others but it'll be a nice deep dive into a few infocom games. Gonna do one on Odell down under and MECC too.

There's a surprising amount of resources that aren't dead links regarding infocom stuff.

[bernds74]

For interactive fiction at least there are still people interested in it, and people are preserving Infocom history in particular. Other games might get forgotten over time unfortunately, especially on more obscure systems. Nobody ever brings up Turrican anymore when discussing game soundtracks...

[lucy_gatenby]

“Oh boy, are we gonna try something dangerous now?”

[danesparza]

To be clear, I thought the article was for this game, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetfall

[DidYaWipe]

Yeah, why is the article entitled "Planetfall," when it has no apparent relationship to the game?

[Narishma]

It has relevance to the game it discusses, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.