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Hollywood Hijinx Vol. V/No. 4 -Fall 1986- Glamour Edition Soon Tu Be A Major Interactive Story . .. HOLLYWOOD HIJINX Who can forget those wonderful You even enjoyed your Cousin childhood sununers spent with Herman, who often visited at the your Aunt Hildegarde and Uncle same time as you. You and Her­ Buddy Burbank? Uncle Buddy was man would team up together to a Hollywood mogul, Aunt play games in the garden or help Hildegarde his loving (and very Aunt Hildegarde with her dinner rich) wife. They had no children parties. There was also the time of their own, but you and your he got sick in the top bunk when cousins were always welcome at you were sleeping in the bottom their sprawling Malibu estate. one. Or the time he tripped you The house itself was loads of on the beach stairs and you fell fun. There was the luxurious and got a bloody nose. But you movie theater, the gaudy round were able to forgive and forget in satin-covered bed, the gold-plated the name of cousinly love. bathroom faucets in the shape of Well, those days are all behind Aunt Hildegarde and Uncle Buddy would be proud of the Oscars, and the goofy props from you. Uncle Buddy has been dead Hollywood Hijinx package. old Buddy Burbank movies. And for several years, and now Aunt the grounds had everything from Hildegarde has passed away, too. It a private beach to a hedge maze, seems lil<e the end of an era - un­ Breakthrough In where you usually managed to get til you learn that you've inherited lost. the entire estate. There's just one Continuing Education . .. Your aunt and uncle were fun, . quirky stipulation: you can only too. Uncle Buddy, who dressed in claim your booty if you find ten polyester leisure suits and gold "treasures'' from old Buddy Bur­ THE ENCHANTER TRILOGY chains, always had a practical joke bank movies hidden throughout up his sleeve. And, despite her ec­ the house and grounds. If you can't Are you tired of dragging around In the first lesson, Enchanter, centricities, Aunt Hildy loved you heavy swords? Exhausted from you are given an extensive ground­ like a mother. (continued on page 4) bloody battles with trolls and ing in spellcraft as you are sent by thieves? Feeling that it's all gotten the Circle of Enchanters to defeat a bit too . .. well, physical? the evil warlock Krill and prevent It's time to step up to a more the ruination of the land. As cerebral, white-collar underground Games magazine said, "This is an career! Become an enchanter! In impressive start for' a new trilogy only three lessons, we can turn and a must for all adventure you from a novice magician into gamers'.' Enchanter was written by a full-fledged member of the Cir­ Dave Lebling and Marc Blank, the cle of Enchanters, and then, if you co-authors of the Zork® 1hlogy. play your cards right, into the head In the second lesson, SorcererT~ of the Circle itself! your defeat of Krill has promoted Previously, it took almost three you to full membership in the Cir­ years to complete this course, and cle. Everything looks rosy until it cost over 120 dollars. But now, Belboz, the head of the Circle, thanks to extensive research, in­ disappears under mysterious cir­ novative modem packaging, and a cumstances. Ultimately you must collaboration between the Frobozz use time-travel, transformation, Magic Magic Equipment Com­ and general trickiness to destroy pany and Crazy Dimwit's, Infocom the demon Jeearr, whds at the bot­ brings you the entire Enchanter® tom of it all. Analog Computing 1hlogy for only $69.95 for the said, "Sorcerer does live up to the Commodore 64/128 and $79.95 for precedent set for it by Enchanter the IBM and Apple Il series. and, in many respects, surpasses The Great Underground Empire ie' Sorcerer was written by Steve Tech Correspondence Course in Meretzky, author of Planetfall'fco- Talk to animals! Fly like a bat! Turn enemies into newts! It's all Enchanting contains these three possible in The Enchanter Trilogy. lessons: (continued on page 2) PAGE 2 THE STATUS LINE FALL 1986 Enchanter 'Iiilogy (continued from page 1) author of The Hitch.hiker's Guide written by Dave Lebling. to the Galaxyn;1 and author of A The Enchanter 1Hlogy comes irl Writers: Tom Bok, Gary Brennan, Elizabeth Langosy, Dave Lebling, Steve Mind Forever Voyaging™ and a beautiful slipcased package Meretzky, Jonathan Palace, Tom Veld.ran Leather Goddesses of Phobos™ suitable for awed contemplation, Production: Cynthia Curtis, Susan Goldman, Jonathan Palace The third lesson, Spellbreakern;1 tasteful holiday gift-giving, or an­ Supposed Boss: Susan Goldman is a tricky final exam, for now you noying friends and relations who © 1986 Infocom, Inc., 12.5 CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge, MA 02.140 have become Head of the Circle of thirlk Infocom is irlto occultism. Zork, Enchanter, Deadline, The Witness, Starcross, Suspended, Planetfall, Infidel, Seastalker, Enchanters. Ready to relax and All three games have been updated Cutthroats, Suspect, and Wishbringer are registered ·trademarks of lnfocom, Inc. Hollywood Hiiinx. Moonmist, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, 1hnity, Ballyhoo, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, take it easy, you have no such with the latest and best bug fixes, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Fooblitzky, Cornerstone, Tales of Adventure, Interactive Fiction Plus, and InvisiClues are trademarks of Infocom, Inc. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a luck: magic itself appears to be irlcluding the legendary OOPS trademark of Douglas Adams. failing, the populace is up irl arms, command. All the feelies you and the most dangerous opponent know and love are there, irlcluding yet is behirld it all. Analog Com­ the lovely field guide to the NY Times Can't Be puting said "Spellbreaker is a vast, "Creatures of Frobozz" (Sorcerer) sprawling game, firlely detailed, and five portraits of renowned En­ irltricately designed. It can be easi­ chanters (Spellbreaker). The En­ GIVEN Away ly and wholeheartedly recom­ chanter 1tilogy is limited while mended, a grand conclusion to a supplies last. Tu Whom It May Concern: New York Times yet about my great series'.' Spellbreaker was When I got my Status Line a few days subscription, so maybe it's not too late ago, I was thrilled to learn that I had to cancel it, saving Infocom from finan­ named one of the greatest newsletters cial ruin. How about it? Who in their of all time. Then I remembered the right mind would give away an expen­ sive prize made by some other com­ Hitchhiker' s In Planetfall, using naughty words prize I had won: a year's subscription causes the response "Such to The New York Times. Now what, pany when they could simply give on Radio exactly, am I going to do with that? I away a relatively inexpensive Infocom language from an ensign irl the can't use it to line a bird cage, because . game, and boost their company's im­ We are proud to armounce that Stellar Patrol!" The reason we age at the same time? Please serious­ I don't even have a bird! Then I thought, once again Infocom has made it mention this is an old but still this prize must be costing those ln­ ly consider this idea, and let me know amusing quote we dug up recent­ what you think. possible for all radio listeners to focommies an arm and a leg (or two). pick up Hitchhiker's! Before it was ly. It's &om an article on irlterac­ They would save big bucks if they just Sincerely, Cliff Tuel an irlteractive story, before it was tive fiction in the .Man:h 18, 1985, sent me an Infocom game for my Ap­ issue of People magazine: ple IIc, such as Leather Goddesses of San Jose, CA a TV show, before it was converted irlto four phenomenal best-selling Phobos P.S. If you decide to waste your money In Planetfall, if you tell the com­ I haven't heard anything from The on the newspaper, I'll read it anyway. books, The Hitch.hiker's Guide to the Galaxy was a twelve-part radio puter to •:go to hell" it replies, serial on Britain's BBC. Now In­ Such language from an enzyme in focom is sponsoring a rebroadcast the stellar patrol!" of the entire serial on National Public Radio (NPR) . This is radio as you've never heard it before. Conceived and written by Douglas Adams, The Hitch.hiker's Guide radio serial is . > hilarious and contairls some of the DEAR 0 best sound effects ever produced. Before the irlteractive story came out, many considered this radio Dear Miss Underground serial the best rendition of The Manners: Hitchhiker's Guide. If you have I am a middle-aged gnome who never heard it, you will find it fun­ likes to think he practices impec­ ny, outrageous, mirldboggling, and cable manners. Recently, my well worth listening to. next-tunnel neighbor, an ogre of Begirmirlg irl January 1987, good repute and social standirlg, episodes will be made available to irlvited me to be present at his public radio stations across the son's wedding. Naturally, I con­ 5oow J.IE , t-L country for irlclusion irl their sented cheerfully. When the date schedules. Check local program arrived, I appeared at the listirlgs for times - each station ceremony, only to firld that my I CAN puts together its own schedule irl­ wife and children had been chop­ dependently. If your local public ped up and were to be served as radio station is not carryirlg the hors d'oeuvres at the reception.
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