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Lost Infocom Games Discovered

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the retro-hotness dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Archivists at Waxy.org have gotten a copy of the backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989 and are piecing together information about games that were never released. In particular, there is the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy called Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and there are two playable prototypes of it. And yes, they have playable downloads available."

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  1. The submitter says it all... by Red+Jesus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Submitter's name: "I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property"

    Summary of summary: Some people got ahold of someone's hard drive and published the contents online.

    Yeah.

    1. Re:The submitter says it all... by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Funny

      Dude. The data was in a dark place. It was likely to be eaten by a grue.

  2. Just don't! by kickmyassman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now all you have to do is not panic if these pages get slashdotted... just... DON'T... PANIC.

    1. Re:Just don't! by Kugrian · · Score: 5, Funny

      It won't get slashdotted, it'll get eaten by 69105 grues.

  3. Nostalgia by quokkapox · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was in fourth grade when I first played with the Zork triology of text-adventure games on the C-64. An innocent kid and budding geek, I tried feeding novel combinations of nouns and verbs to the primitive parser.

    I tried "EAT LAMP"... got back "You can't eat the lamp."
    "EAT BREAD"... "That was delicious."... Etc.

    I tried "EAT ME". I couldn't comprehend why my dad, who had just bought the game for me and was supervising over my shoulder, started laughing so hard.

    Several years later I finally understood why he laughed even harder when the computer responded:

    "Auto-cannibalism is not the answer."

    You can mod this offtopic, but those 1983 game designers had a real sense of humor and subtly implemented it in 64KB.

    ... Oh, you don't like it when I recycle old jokes!? You must be new here...

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    1. Re:Nostalgia by laejoh · · Score: 0, Funny

      Ah, the good old days, when 64KB was enough for anybody!

    2. Re:Nostalgia by AKAImBatman · · Score: 1, Funny

      Auto-cannibalism is not the answer!

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  4. Re:Strange Description... by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    He cloned himself in a tragic accident involving an improbability generator, an elastic band and a Rezrov scroll.

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  5. Zork knows me better than I do by Psychotria · · Score: 4, Funny

    >look
    West of House
    You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
    There is a small mailbox here.

    >kill mailbox with hands
    I've known strange people, but fighting a small mailbox?

    >

  6. Re:Educational value: by arb+phd+slp · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wasn't really a backup drive. They actually put the file in the Thing That Your Aunt Gave You That You Don't Know What It Is and lost it, but it just turned up again.

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  7. Re:hard drive archeology by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 2, Funny

    There is no such thing as "USENET". It's only a rumor.

    Now, time to go back to trolling alt. .... Um. Er.

    LOOK! A pony!

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