Does the above word, the name of a now defunct software/gaming company, ring any bells?

It sure does for me.

Infocom was an early software developer/gaming company perhaps best known for classic fare such as Zork and its sequels and The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy game.  Here’s Zork, in all its glory:

Scintillating stuff, no?

Well, for early gamers such as me, it was for its time.

Back then graphics were at best rudimentary in both computers and video games and to develop an involved, “deep” game, it was sometimes better to eschew graphics completely and design a game that worked as Zork did, with words alone.

Anyway, if you’re curious about the company, which closed its doors in 1989, you can…

Dig Through the Archives of Infocom

By the way, I found this link at the below article, by Luke Plunkett and for kotaku.com…

http://kotaku.com/dig-through-the-archives-of-a-closed-developer-1744308843

Interesting, at least to me!