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From: schweda@iastate.edu (Christopher Schweda)
Subject: Re: Best packaging (was Re: Maps in LTOI-1)
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In <1993Mar17.150633.9371@zip.eecs.umich.edu> positron@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Jonathan Haas) writes:

>The best packaging, BY FAR, leaving all others in its dust, was
>Bureaucracy. I once bought the Commodore 128 version of that game
>for $10, despite the fact that neither I nor anybody I knew owned
>a Commodore 128, just for the packaging.

>BTW, if anyone owns Bureaucracy but hasn't looked at the second and third
>sheets of the triplicate form, do so :)

>(really, I think Beezer is just wonderful.)



I think the Infocom package contents for each game should definitely
be added to the FAQ. I remember buying ZORK I fror my TRS-80 Model III
in just a slim little Radio Shack plastic bag. Maybe this was before 
Infocom started putting together the neato packages.


But does anyone remember Infocom's computer magazine ads -- the ads that
appeared in Byte and 80 Micro? Something like: "At this rate, we'll be
finished by the year 2010" and they showed a picture of five or six of
the games -- Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Deadline, Planetfall -- and the
rest of the page was blank. Those ads were great. I remember going to
computer stores and pouring over the Infocom boxes, checking the back to
see what each contained. The last game I bought was BorderZone for my Mac --
found it for five bucks at a local Egghead Software. *sigh*


Chris Schweda
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