Infocom – the secret harddrive stash!

Many many moons ago, there was an interactive fiction gaming development company with the ever so proud name of Infocom. Some of you may, or may not have heard of these guys, but they were a pretty large gaming company back in the 80s and created many interactive hits like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the series of Zork. I mean, these people made a ton of games, but these are the ones I’m familiar with.

Well, someone made a backup copy of the shared Infocom harddrive back in 1989 and it was given to this guy named Andy Baio over at Waxy.org and he gives us a good idea what was happening over at Infocom in the 80s and all the different cool little things that a gaming company goes through to create a game. Specifically, Andy talks a lot about a never released sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy called Milliways: The Restraurant at the End of the Universe

Since many of you who read this blog have been playing games since the 80s, I figured you like to see what there is to see about this unreleased game and how cool it would’ve been if we would’ve gotten a sequel. So, check out Andy’s blog entry here. There’s tons of cool stuff to read about!

[Infocom logo courtesy of Infocom.]