Re: FA: Suspended (mask box!), sealed Fooblitzky, Planetfall

[Marc G. Frank <mgfrank@yahoo.com>]

In article <Pine.SOL.4.05.9906051836070.9799-100000@titan.cc.wwu.edu>,
  Matthew Murray <mmurray@cc.wwu.edu> wrote:
> 	Really?  I was not aware the Mac version ever was released in
the
> mask package...  I would have thought it would have come too late.  Oh
> well, one never knows, do one?

Actually, I hadn't considered this.  I wasn't the original owner of the
game.  Not surprisingly I concentrated on the box and feelies and
completely ignored the disk.  :-)  The disk and reference card may very
well not "belong" to the box.  But it is possible, I think.

I'm getting my info here from Paul David Doherty's Infocom fact sheet at
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/misc/if-archive/infocom/info/fact-sheet.t
xt.

According to that, ZIP for the Mac showed up in June 1984, the same
month Seastalker was released.  Seastalker was released in a folio
(non-grey-box) format.  It further states that the grey box was
introduced in Summer 1984.  It lists Cutthroats as dating to September
1984, available only in a grey-box version.  So Mac games could have
been available in the folio packaging for a short period in Summer 1984.

I can't definitely state that the Mac disk I have was originally
attached to the mask box, but I don't see anything that rules it out.
Here's what I can tell:

* From January 1982 to April 1985, Infocom was located at the 55 Wheeler
St address; in April 1985 it moved to 125 Cambridge Park Drive.

* Unfortunately, I don't have access to a Mac, so I'm unable to pull a
version number out of the data file.

* There's no reference to platform on the box itself.  Presumably this
would have been a label on the shrinkwrap.

* The box reads "Copyright 1983 Infocom, Inc."  The disk reads
"Copyright 1983, 1984 Infocom, Inc."

* Both the box and reference card have the 55 Wheeler St address.

* The latest game mentioned on the registration card is Seastalker.

That's probably more than anyone wanted to know, but Matthew's post got
me curious.  :-)

--
Marc G. Frank
mgfrank@yahoo.com


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