Every once in a while, a company or group of people enter an industry (or create it) who are so far ahead of everyone else, so absolutely the best at their craft, that others stop even referring to them and just concentrate on doing the best they can compared the rest of the competitors. In this case, the industry was Text Adventures, and the company was Infocom.
Based in Cambridge, MA, and surviving for nearly a decade, Infocom was started by a group of MIT students who had worked on parsing out full sentences and having machines react properly. Whereas most games before infocom had simple commands like TAKE ROCK or LOOK, Infocom games let you work in full sentences, enabling you to type things like ASK THE TROLL ABOUT THE COINS and CLIMB ON TOP OF THE HOUSE. This great interface, combined with the year (or years) of work put into writing the descriptions and creating the puzzles, meant that you were riding on the best text adventure vehicle out there.
Infocom ultimately died as many companies do, with a few fatal business decisions and with a quiet disappearance, only to have its corpse propped up for a series of graphic adventures made by Activision. Regardless of its fate, this company was unique, and in the world of the 80x24 screen, they ruled supreme.
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ballyhoo.adv | 21376 | Solution to Infocom's Ballyhoo
| berlynco.adv | 37014 | Compuserve interview of Michael Berlyn (Creator of several Infocom adventures)
| bey_zlor.txt | 8653 | Beyond Zork: The Lore and Legends of Quendor by Z-Man
| beyondzo.txt | 9092 | Tips for Beyond Zork by Erik Futtrup and Twan Lintermans
| beyzorhn | 18272 | Walkthrough and Spoler for Beyond Zork by Infocom, by Big MAC
| bulzorkr.txt | 11694 | Zorker's Corner: An Overview of Infocom Adventures
| bureaucr.adv | 15918 | Solution to Infocom's Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams
| cutthroa.adv | 5655 | Solution to Infocom's Cutthroats
| enchant.adv | 2382 | Solution to part one of Enchanter
| evertry.txt | 2362 | Zork I-III Tips and Tricks
| evertry2.txt | 948 | For Your Amusement: Deadline Tips and Tricks
| evertry3.txt | 1034 | For Your Amusement: Infidel Tips and Tricks
| evertry4.txt | 827 | Have You Tried... (Suspended Funnies)
| evertry5.txt | 1017 | Have You Ever Tried.... (Starcross Funnies)
| evertry6.txt | 2024 | Have You Tried... (Witness Funnies) by the Wyvern
| funnies.txt | 3176 | Fun Stuff with Infocom Adventures, by the Wyvern
| hitch-h.txt | 31991 | Walkthrough for Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
| hitchgui.txt | 33662 | Walkthrough of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from Infocom, by Barbara Baser (1985) (Laden with "Compuservisms")
| infidel.adv | 4676 | Solution to Infocom's Infidel
| infobugs.adv | 3930 | Infocom Text Adventure Bugs
| infocom.adv | 1536 | How to crack Apple II Infocom adventures using a "ROM Switch".
| infocom.txt | 6784 | A List of Infocom Bugs
| leather.adv | 26439 | Solution to Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos
| planet.adv | 7923 | Solution to Planetfall, by Infocom
| rtzsolve.txt | 25688 | Return To Zork: Almost-Full-Point Solution
| starcros.txt | 11213 | Walkthrough for Starcross
| statinfo.txt | 1387 | General Infocom Statistics by The Gunslinger
| stationf.adv | 22497 | Solution to Infocom's Stationfall
| wishbrin.adv | 5873 | Solution to Infocom's Wishbringer
| wishmap.adv | 2486 | Pretty amazing ASCII Wishbringer map
| zork.i.a.txt | 4933 | How to Solve Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, by Screwy Luey
| zork.i.b.txt | 2606 | Solutions to Zork 1 by Infocom
| zork.i.c.txt | 14291 | Solution to Zork I by Infocom
| zork.ii.a.txt | 2340 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
| zork.ii.b.txt | 3915 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
| zork.ii.c.txt | 11856 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
| zork.iii.a.txt | 1826 | Solution to Zork III by Infocom
| zork.iii.b.txt | 3421 | Solution to Zork III by Infocom
| zork.iii.c.txt | 11352 | Solution to Zork III by InfoCom
| zork0.txt | 24524 | Walkthrough for Zork Zero by Activision
| zork1.sol | 19571 | Collection of Solutions to Zork I, by Infocom
| zork1.txt | 15395 | A Walkthrough for Zork I by Barbara Baser (1984)
| zork1doc.txt | 12402 | "The Great Underground Empire: A History" by Froboz Mumbar
| zork1through3.txt | 20511 | Walkthrough for Zork I through III
| zork2.sol | 5172 | Solution to Zork II, by The Doctor
| zork2.txt | 19527 | A Walkthrough for Zork II by barbara Baser (1984)
| zork2doc.txt | 15515 | Zork II Documentation
| zork3.sol | 19645 | Collection of Solutions to Zork III, by Infocom
| zork3.txt | 14869 | A Walkthrough for Zork III by Barbara Baser (1985)
| zork3doc.txt | 11533 | Zork III Documentation
| zorki.txt | 23670 | A Walkthrough for Zork I
| zorkii.txt | 23048 | A Walkthrough for Zork II
| zorkiii.txt | 25244 | A Walkthrough for Zork III
| zorkse.adv | 37360 | Solutions to all of the Zork Series (I, II, III)
| zorkuu.txt | 8908 | Invisiclues for Zork: The Undiscovered Adventure
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