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* * * * (Aka the New Zork Times) " * * * Weather: State of exigency * * , * * " VOL. V....No. 4 * * —SPRING 1986*— * INTERVERNAL EDITION Trinity: A Nuclear Time Warp Interactive fiction lets you control of all time: the world's first atomic the course of a story. Trinity™, the explosion, code-named Trinity. exciting new fantasy from Infocom, Trinity blends fantasy and realism takes this one step further. It lets you to bring you an otherworldly attempt to alter the course of history. experience somewhere between Trinity begins in London, where Alice in Wonderland and The you are a tourist determined to Twilight Zone. Although author enjoy the last day of your $599 Brian Moriarty conducted extensive vacation, despite ominous research to ensure the accuracy of rumblings from the superpowers. locations and events, at no time are But the peaceful ambience of a sum- you completely in reality. Even at mer morning quickly turns to horror the Trinity site, magical things can as air raid sirens fill the air and a happen. hydrogen bomb threatens the city As the first puzzle-oriented game with instant annihilation. to be written with Infocom's Interac- If you're clever, you'll escape tive Fiction Plus™ development through a mysterious white door into system, Trinity has more of all the a magical garden filled with curious things Infocom fans have grown to artifacts and overgrown with know and love. There are dozens of Every Trinity package includes “The Illustrated Story of the Atom gigantic toadstools. But this haunt- challenges, nearly 600 objects and Bomb,” a map of the Trinity test site, an intricately decorated sundial, ingly beautiful landscape is only the locations, and a vocabulary of over and instructions for folding an origami bird. starting point of your journey. 2100 words. Interactive Fiction Plus You've discovered a twilight world doubles the potential size of a in which every atomic explosion that program, allowing for larger, richer has ever occurred is inexplicably stories and more sophisticated user Cornerstone For $99.95 connected; and you'll need to ex- interfaces. plore every inch of it, crisscrossing To get you started, the Trinity Cornerstone™, the powerful, easy- many of the people who would time and space, before you can package includes a copy of The to-use database from Infocom, is benefit most from Cornerstone understand and control its power. Illustrated Story of the Atom Bomb. now available for only $99.95. just couldn't afford it. So we Your quest will lead you from the This historical comic book fills you Why did we lower the price on a repackaged it to cut costs and set Siberian tundra to a tropical island, in on the facts behind the fantasy, as product that's already getting a price more accessible to the from deep underground to the depths well as providing valuable clues to great reviews from users and individual user it was originally of outer space. The chilling climax the puzzles in the story. Also press? Simple. We realized that by title, author, subject, publication, takes place in the New Mexico included are an intricately deco- fa and date, desert, where you'll arrive minutes rated punch-out sundial, a detailed in For example, in the Public Rela- before the most fateful experiment Please turn to page 9 w *.*.* tions office here at Infocom, we in DEL keep a copy of every article pub- be lished about the company or our ear Somewhere out there, beyond the Greatproducts. Underground— er,These no — are Empire, a filednews paperby public a- Infocom Weds Activision exists a strange world where a gruespaper Again, this information can is bepublished. tion in We several don't largeknow filefor surecabinets. It's On February 19, 1986, Activision, responded with a (clean) limerick. The New York Times they're used calledin many different ways. For easy to learn what Time magazine Inc. announced that Infocom would The bride wore a veil made from what a york is (something like a yak, we suppose), but if example, it would be easy to find out has said about Infocom, but finding be purchased by Activision, in a five yards of nylon net, and carried as nasty as grues, we don't want to meet one. Anyway,nasty they as and how many gravesites are still avail- every review of Planetfall involves transaction valued at approximately artificial flowers. Both bride and able andtheir where lawyers they (which are located,we are quite as surehours are of at searchingleast as through file fold- $7.5 million. Mere weeks later, in a groom wore looks of bemused well asgrues) to categorize think that athem zork byand cost. a york ers.are prettySetting much up alike.an articles file on So, we're looking for a new name for * * * . If you have a dramatic affirmation of combina- surprise. This information could then be sent is rightCornerstone, out), send with it to each* * * article, listed suggestion (The New Zork Post torial spirit, Activision President After a honeymoon at Aragain to current owners, as well as to Con- by title, author, subject, publication, Infocom, Inc., 125 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140. James H. Levy and Infocom Presi- Falls, the newly merged couple will gregation members who have not yet and date,The lets New us easily York Timesaccess every The winner will receive a subscription to dent Joel M. Berez were merged in a maintain their separate product reserved a gravesite. And Corner- review of Planetfall, every article by or the newspaper of his or her choice. Now that you know the moving ceremony presided over by development and marketing stone's "tickler" file can be used to a given freelance author, or even InfoRabbi Stuart W. Galleywitz. facilities in Mountain View, CA, difference, we're sure that your choiceThe will New be * York * * .Times We apologize hoping remindto the the Beth millions Shalom of people office whowhen bought articles we remember only by title or Infocommies cheered, participated and Cambridge, MA. (i.e. We'll still to expectto receive a monument * * * . Entries installation, must be receiveddate of publication. by August 15, Cornerstone 1986,to and tells in responsive readings from Hackers be the Infocom you know and love.) and sendbecome out thea secon propertyd billing, of Infocom, or Inc.us exactly (We reserve where the to right find what we (written by Steven Levy — no Queried about graphics in order a comefloral up arrangement with our own for name, a per- if wewant, think so yours it's easy are allto terrible,gons.) back but into the relation to Jim), and threw rice at the Interactive Fiction stories, or better petual-carewe'll plot. award the prize to the least badfile entrycabin etif thatand happepull it out. beaming CEOs. parsers in Little Computer People, Maybe you don't manage a Bruce took full advantage of Berez read a tone poem drawn the happy couple declined comment, Public Relations office. But Cor- Cornerstone's relational abilities from the purple prose of several but smiled enigmatically. nerstone, with each article listed Please turn to page 9 Interactive Fiction stories, and Levy PAGE 2 * * * * SPRING 1986 Fooblitzky Available at Your Corner Store Would you rather spend an great game. It reminds people of has access to an IBM PC/XT/AT ownership. evening with a serial murderer than classic board games like Clue® and (with 128K, graphics card, and pref- Bringing Fooblitzky to the posta- with a mailman? Does the mere Mastermind™. It's a challenging erably a composite monitor), or an phobics is just the beginning of a thought of licking a postage stamp strategy game with fun graphics. It's Atari XL/XE (with 48K and 810 or long, long crusade. There are still cause your mouth to dry up and your a competitive game which promotes 1050 disk drive), or an Apple II plus/ many more computer owners that tongue to swell? Do you shudder and social interaction between players. IIe/IIc (with 128K), and at least need to be united with this unique hyperventilate to the beat of Mr. It's a perfect family game, one that $39.95 of disposable income. As part game. For example, people who do Postman by the Marvelettes? Do you young and old can play together. It's of this crusade, we are now making not subscribe to * * * * might not be break out in hives or a cold sweat enjoyed by males and females alike. Fooblitzky available through retail aware of Fooblitzky. Or this might be when you're within a hundred yard It's a game that even computer-haters channels, thereby ending one of the the perfect Infocom game for the few radius of a mailbox? Will you only can love! greatest discomforts that posta- lost souls who don't care for interac- eat Kellogg's raisin bran? If you an- Having confirmed our belief in its phobics have had to suffer. With tive fiction. So please join us in our swered "yes" to one or more of the greatness, we knew we must embark Fooblitzky painlessly available at crusade. We need your help. Spread above questions, you most likely on a crusade to make Fooblitzky their local software dealer, victims of the news of Fooblitzky — suffer from postaphobia — the fear available to every man, woman, and postaphobia need no longer be because a thing of beauty is meant to of anything pertaining to the post child in the free world who owns or deprived of the joys of Fooblitzky be shared. office or mail service. In the past, victims of this crippling condition have been Eniac and Other Little Known Computer Facs unable to enjoy all the pleasures and treasures that life has to offer — This year marks the fortieth CATARAC.
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