Re: Infocom "brain" ad

[adam@flagstaff.princeton.edu (Adam J. Thornton)]

In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960322183203.1285C-100000@the-eye.res.wpi.edu>,
George Caswell  <timbuktu@the-eye.res.wpi.edu> wrote:
>> How very true. And yet, how ironic, considering "Arthur", "Shogun", 
>> and "Journey"...
>   And Zork Zero.  But those were post-merger games...  The Brain ad is 
>more the golden hour of Infocom...

I must disagree about Z0.

Like SpiritWrak, it's a _ZORK_ game.  It's _supposed_ to be about puzzles.
And if _all_ the puzzles were the old chestnuts I'd have been annoyed, but
enough were legitimately new that I quite enjoyed it.  In fact, I felt that
the antiques gave the game a nice "nodding to the ancestors" flavor to the
game.

Plus I still can't play Peggleboz to save my life.

Adam
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