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From: i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Matthew Murray)
Subject: Re: ZorkQuests??
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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 1994 16:31:45 GMT
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     The ZorkQuests were part of an all too brief experiment that Infocom 
tried in the later 1980s.  I always thought they were great and 
brilliant.  They were InfoComics.  You paid $12 and you got what was 
essentially a computerized comic book.  You could read the story and 
follow it all the way through, saving your place if you wanted to come 
back later, and other things of that nature.  But the most interesting 
thing was the way that you could follow ANY particular character 
throughout their part of the story.  That character might interact with 
others that you see in a different way when you follow them, or it may 
not.  You got the chance to get ALL the aspects of the story, and you 
could go through it multiple times to see if you got everything.  (I'm 
STILL not sure I did!)  Since today, most of the largest (meaning with 
the most disks or CDs) are basically nothing more than interactive comic 
books anyway (though done not nearly as well as the InfoComics were), 
Infocom was very ahead of their time.  I would love to see these 
continued, at a comparable price.  With the technology available today, 
it would be possible to make these really great on CD-ROM.  I doubt it 
will happen, but I think it should.

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Matthew A. Murray                                  i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu
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i9717029@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu                                 Matthew A. Murray
