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The collection includes all the contents of the two Lost Treasures of Infocom collections except for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and James Clavell's Shōgun. The rights to these two games, based on novels by Douglas Adams and James Clavell, respectively, had reverted to the novels' authors.
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]
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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Nate and Sully discover an alcove that once held a large statue after following the diary to the indicated spot, and realize that El Dorado is not a city but rather a golden idol. [5] They find a Nazi U-boat, which contains a page from Drake's diary showing the statue was taken to a remote island in the South Pacific.
Legend Entertainment Company was an American developer and publisher of computer games, best known for creating adventure titles throughout the 1990s. The company was founded by Bob Bates and Mike Verdu, both veterans of the interactive fiction studio Infocom that shut down in 1989.
Netflix's 'Outer Banks' season 3 dropped on Feb. 23. On this season, the Pogues are looking for the El Dorado treasure in this season, but is it actually real?
Developed by Infocom and published by Activision for MS-DOS, Windows, and Mac OS, The Zork Anthology is a six-game compilation containing the original Zork trilogy (Zork I, II, and III), Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, and Planetfall. [1] [2] The collection was originally a free bonus disc with Return to Zork at the end of 1994. It was then sold as its ...