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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 ShÅgun. The rights to these two games, based on novels by Douglas Adams and James Clavell, respectively, had reverted to the novels' authors.
The player takes control of either Tulio or Miguel, exploring a multitude of different levels such as a Spanish town, ships, jungles, caves or the city of El Dorado. The main objective in the first portion of the game is to find nine separate map pieces that will eventually lead to the lost city of El Dorado.
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]
The setting was inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island and involved a quest to retrieve Long John Silver's lost treasures. [3] Gameplay involved moving from location to location, picking up any objects found there, and using them somewhere else to unlock puzzles. Commands took the form of verb and noun, e.g. "Climb Tree".
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 .
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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.
A sword and one of the Three Sacred Treasures of Japan that legitimize the rule of the Emperor. Lost at sea in the Battle of Dan-no-ura in the Genpei War. [3] Current government claims possession, but has not permitted outside verification. The original crown jewels of England: Legend 1216 —