The ''Interactive Fiction Collections'' is a video game series developed by

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and published by

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for the PC and

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The ''Interactive Fiction Collections'' are a series of five video game collections containing 31 of Infocom's 35 canonical titles, with themes of Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, and Sci-Fi. * ''The Adventure Collection'' (1995; contains ''

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'', '' Cutthroats'',

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Plundered Hearts ''Plundered Hearts'' is an interactive fiction video game created by Amy Briggs and published by Infocom in 1987. Infocom's only game in the romance novel, romance genre, it was released simultaneously for the Commodore 64, Atari 8-bit family, Ata ...

, and

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. Bonus titles are

Planetfall ''Planetfall'' is a science fiction themed interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983. The original release included versions for Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80, and IBM PC ...

and

Zork III ''Zork'' is a text-based adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded an ...

.) * ''The Comedy Collection'' (1995; contains

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, ''

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'', '' Hollywood Hijinx'' and ''

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It ''Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It'' is an interactive fiction video game written by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released simultaneously for MS-DOS, Commodore 64, and other platforms. ''Nord and Bert'' was u ...

''). Bonus titles are

and

Zork I ''Zork'' is a text-based adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and ...

.) * ''The Fantasy Collection'' (1995; contains Enchanter,

Seastalker ''Seastalker'' is an interactive fiction game written by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence and published by Infocom in 1984. It was released simultaneously for several popular computer platforms of the time, such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, and IB ...

, ''

Spellbreaker ''Spellbreaker'' is an interactive fiction computer game written by Dave Lebling and published by Infocom in 1985, the third and final game in the "Enchanter Trilogy." It was released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atar ...

'', '' Sorcerer'', and ''

Wishbringer ''Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams'' is an interactive fiction video game written by Brian Moriarty and published by Infocom in 1985. It was intended to be an easier game to solve than the typical Infocom release and provide a good intro ...

''. Bonus title are

and

I.) * ''The Mystery Collection '' (1995; contains ''

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'', ''

The Lurking Horror ''The Lurking Horror'' is an interactive fiction game released by Infocom in 1987. The game was written by Dave Lebling and inspired by the horror fiction writings of H. P. Lovecraft (including his Cthulhu Mythos). The original release was for MS- ...

'', ''

Moonmist ''Moonmist'' is an interactive fiction computer game written by Stu Galley and Jim Lawrence and published by Infocom in 1986. The game was released simultaneously for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodor ...

'', '' Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels'', ''

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'' and '' The Witness''. Bonus titles are

and ''

Zork Zero ''Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz'' is an interactive fiction computer game, written by Steve Meretzky over nearly 18 months and published by Infocom in 1988. Although it is the ninth and last ''Zork'' game released by Infocom before the company ...

.)'' * ''The Science Fiction Collection'' (1995; contains ''

A Mind Forever Voyaging ''A Mind Forever Voyaging'' (''AMFV'') is a 1985 interactive fiction game designed and implemented by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom. It is Infocom's seventeenth game. The game was intended as a Polemic, polemical critique of Ronald Reag ...

'', ''

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (sometimes referred to as ''HG2G'', ''HHGTTG'', ''H2G2'', or ''tHGttG'') is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it ...

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'', '' Stationfall'', and '' Suspended''. Bonus titles are

Beyond Zork ''Beyond Zork'' (full title: ''Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor'') is an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and released by Infocom in 1987. It was one of the last games in the Zork series developed by Infocom (titles s ...

and

.) Infocom titles not included in this collection were Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, Journey: The Quest Begins,

Leather Goddesses of Phobos ''Leather Goddesses of Phobos'' is an interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1986. It was released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Macintosh, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 6 ...

, and James Clavell's Shogun.

Reception

'' Next Generation'' reviewed the PC version of the game, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "Simply put, these are some of the greatest adventure games of all time. ..if you want to have anything approaching a complete game library, you'll need to grab all of these."

References

{{reflist Infocom games Video games developed in the United States

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