# Adventure Textfiles: INFOCOM

Every once in a while, a company or group of people enter an industry (or create it) who are so far ahead of everyone else, so absolutely the best at their craft, that others stop even referring to them and just concentrate on doing the best they can compared the rest of the competitors. In this case, the industry was Text Adventures, and the company was Infocom.

Based in Cambridge, MA, and surviving for nearly a decade, Infocom was started by a group of MIT students who had worked on parsing out full sentences and having machines react properly. Whereas most games before infocom had simple commands like TAKE ROCK or LOOK, Infocom games let you work in full sentences, enabling you to type things like ASK THE TROLL ABOUT THE COINS and CLIMB ON TOP OF THE HOUSE. This great interface, combined with the year (or years) of work put into writing the descriptions and creating the puzzles, meant that you were riding on the best text adventure vehicle out there.

Infocom ultimately died as many companies do, with a few fatal business decisions and with a quiet disappearance, only to have its corpse propped up for a series of graphic adventures made by Activision. Regardless of its fate, this company was unique, and in the world of the 80x24 screen, they ruled supreme.

Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile
ballyhoo.adv | 21376 | Solution to Infocom's Ballyhoo
berlynco.adv | 37014 | Compuserve interview of Michael Berlyn (Creator of several Infocom adventures)
bey_zlor.txt | 8653 | Beyond Zork: The Lore and Legends of Quendor by Z-Man
beyondzo.txt | 9092 | Tips for Beyond Zork by Erik Futtrup and Twan Lintermans
beyzorhn | 18272 | Walkthrough and Spoler for Beyond Zork by Infocom, by Big MAC
bulzorkr.txt | 11694 | Zorker's Corner: An Overview of Infocom Adventures
bureaucr.adv | 15918 | Solution to Infocom's Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams
cutthroa.adv | 5655 | Solution to Infocom's Cutthroats
enchant.adv | 2382 | Solution to part one of Enchanter
evertry.txt | 2362 | Zork I-III Tips and Tricks
evertry2.txt | 948 | For Your Amusement: Deadline Tips and Tricks
evertry3.txt | 1034 | For Your Amusement: Infidel Tips and Tricks
evertry4.txt | 827 | Have You Tried... (Suspended Funnies)
evertry5.txt | 1017 | Have You Ever Tried.... (Starcross Funnies)
evertry6.txt | 2024 | Have You Tried... (Witness Funnies) by the Wyvern
funnies.txt | 3176 | Fun Stuff with Infocom Adventures, by the Wyvern
hitch-h.txt | 31991 | Walkthrough for Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
hitchgui.txt | 33662 | Walkthrough of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from Infocom, by Barbara Baser (1985) (Laden with "Compuservisms")
infidel.adv | 4676 | Solution to Infocom's Infidel
infobugs.adv | 3930 | Infocom Text Adventure Bugs
infocom.adv | 1536 | How to crack Apple II Infocom adventures using a "ROM Switch".
infocom.txt | 6784 | A List of Infocom Bugs
leather.adv | 26439 | Solution to Infocom's Leather Goddesses of Phobos
planet.adv | 7923 | Solution to Planetfall, by Infocom
rtzsolve.txt | 25688 | Return To Zork: Almost-Full-Point Solution
starcros.txt | 11213 | Walkthrough for Starcross
statinfo.txt | 1387 | General Infocom Statistics by The Gunslinger
stationf.adv | 22497 | Solution to Infocom's Stationfall
wishbrin.adv | 5873 | Solution to Infocom's Wishbringer
wishmap.adv | 2486 | Pretty amazing ASCII Wishbringer map
zork.i.a.txt | 4933 | How to Solve Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, by Screwy Luey
zork.i.b.txt | 2606 | Solutions to Zork 1 by Infocom
zork.i.c.txt | 14291 | Solution to Zork I by Infocom
zork.ii.a.txt | 2340 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
zork.ii.b.txt | 3915 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
zork.ii.c.txt | 11856 | Solution to Zork II by Infocom
zork.iii.a.txt | 1826 | Solution to Zork III by Infocom
zork.iii.b.txt | 3421 | Solution to Zork III by Infocom
zork.iii.c.txt | 11352 | Solution to Zork III by InfoCom
zork0.txt | 24524 | Walkthrough for Zork Zero by Activision
zork1.sol | 19571 | Collection of Solutions to Zork I, by Infocom
zork1.txt | 15395 | A Walkthrough for Zork I by Barbara Baser (1984)
zork1doc.txt | 12402 | "The Great Underground Empire: A History" by Froboz Mumbar
zork1through3.txt | 20511 | Walkthrough for Zork I through III
zork2.sol | 5172 | Solution to Zork II, by The Doctor
zork2.txt | 19527 | A Walkthrough for Zork II by barbara Baser (1984)
zork2doc.txt | 15515 | Zork II Documentation
zork3.sol | 19645 | Collection of Solutions to Zork III, by Infocom
zork3.txt | 14869 | A Walkthrough for Zork III by Barbara Baser (1985)
zork3doc.txt | 11533 | Zork III Documentation
zorki.txt | 23670 | A Walkthrough for Zork I
zorkii.txt | 23048 | A Walkthrough for Zork II
zorkiii.txt | 25244 | A Walkthrough for Zork III
zorkse.adv | 37360 | Solutions to all of the Zork Series (I, II, III)
zorkuu.txt | 8908 | Invisiclues for Zork: The Undiscovered Adventure

There are 55 files for a total of 680,963 bytes.