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The Lost Treasures of Infocom was a commercial hit. [3] [4] Peter Doctorow of Activision reported in 1992 that The Lost Treasures of Infocom was "selling extremely well". [3] Jeremy Reimer of Ars Technica wrote, "Retailing for $99, it sold over 100,000 copies and was almost pure profit. The ashes of Infocom saved Activision from bankruptcy." [4]
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
Activision began to sell bundles of the Infocom games that year, packaged as themed collections (usually by genre, such as the Science Fiction collection); in 1991, they published The Lost Treasures of Infocom, followed in 1992 by The Lost Treasures of Infocom II. These compilations featured nearly every game produced by Infocom before 1988.
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Tornado ' s mission planner with a complex multi-plane mission being planned (screenshot, 1994). A Tornado in low-level action over Iraq in the Operation Desert Storm add-on (screenshot, 1994). Tornado is a combat flight simulator video game by Digital Integration that models the Panavia Tornado. It was released in 1993 for DOS and Amiga.
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The first player to earn $1,000,000 in Lost Treasure is the winner. Money is earned by selling treasure in one of the 8 ports on the board. The Dive Control randomly assigns treasure locations when it is powered on. Treasure cannot be located on land, but it can be located in a port.