Infocom Chat brings together classic text adventures and large language models. The site lets you play Infocom's legendary Zork trilogy with an AI assistant that understands the games and so you can ...

Infocom is so far removed from public notice in 2022 that you won't even find archival photos in image libraries from the likes of Getty and Shutterstock. Credit: Bettmann / Contributor via Getty ...

"The great thing about living today," I was telling my coworker, "is that there are things you can buy that could never exist before because they are so far off the mainstream. For example, I just ...

A few months back while participating in a basement cleaning session, I stumbled upon a box of jewel cases full of old game CDs -- Command & Conquer, Doom, X-Com: UFO Defense (one of my all-time ...

My nine-year-old eyes peered at the off-white “stone” cradled in my father’s hand; The Wishbringer stone, capable of granting its owner seven wishes. This physical manifestation of Infocom’s classic ...

Twenty-seven classic text adventures developed by Infocom are now available for $9.99 on iPhone and iPad devices as part of a collection of games on the App Store titled The Lost Treasures of Infocom.

Text-based adventure games, known as “interactive fiction” in gamer’s parlance, are making a slow but steady comeback thanks to a Mac-friendly programming tool called Inform 7. “It is pitch black. You ...