Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...HOLLYWOOD HIJINX, starring you! Your Uncle Buddy and Aunt Hildegarde have passed away, but their memory lives on in their Malibu mansion, filled with a lifetime of Hollywood memorabilia. And you've…
In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who awaits your care. Little do you know that your innocent journey will soon turn to dangerous adventure.
BUREAUCRACY! Everyone, at one time or another, feels bound up in an endless swathe of red tape. In Bureaucracy, best-selling humorist Douglas Adams draws on his own battles with beadledom to create a hilarious misadventure. You'll find yourself in the midst of a bureaucratic muddle so convoluted that you can't help but laugh. You've just landed a great new job and moved to a spiffy house in a nice…
Ever since you arrived at G.U.E. Tech, you've heard stories about the creepy old campus basements and storage rooms, some so ancient that they contain only rotting piles of unidentifiable junk. Until now, you've never ventured lower than the ground floors of the monolithic classroom and dorm buildings, avoiding the warren of tunnels that connect them. THE LURKING HORROR recalls the ghastly visions…
It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's a ransom note for a kidnapped cat, and it will lead you through unbelievably harrowing adventures to Wishbringer, a stone possessing undreamt-of powers. For though the note in question is…
There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it -- because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your submarine, the Scimitar, is docked nearby. But not so fast -- you haven't even tested the Scimitar in deep water, and the crew at the Aquadome may have a traitor in its ranks. So be careful! You…
You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest characters has in mind for you. It's a simple business proposition: all you have to do is locate and salvage a fortune in sunken treasure. You stand to gain millions. The only drawback is, it could cost you your neck. Because to successfully recover the…
YOU CAN'T LOSE! If you've ever wished you could take the lead role in your favorite novel, then you'll really get into Infocom's interactive fiction. YOU become the main character in our interactive stories. Your course of action is limited only by your imagination. FANTASY, MYSTERY, ADVENTURE, SCIENCE FICTION: IT'S ALL RIGHT HERE! Infocom's Four-in-One Sampler gives you the starring role in…
Infocom's wildly-popular 1984 game The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been added to the archives at InvisiClues.org. Play the game, browse the invisiclues, read historical articles, and more! Beyond question the most mind-bogglingly hilarious story Infocom has ever produced is THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, written and designed by Douglas Adams, author of the phenomenally best-selling…
One gilt-edged society dame is dead. And now it looks like some two-bit grifter is putting the screws to her multi-millionaire old man. Then you step in, and the shakedown turns ugly. You're left with a stiff and a race against the clock to nail your suspect...unless you get nailed first! Infocom's 1983 interactive fiction mystery THE WITNESS, written by Infocom co-founder Stu Galley, is now…
Now you can play Infocom's 1988 Infocomic Gamma Force in The Pit of a Thousand Screams right in your browser! This exciting superhero series features a WATERBEAST of indomitable STRENGTH, a human gifted with FLIGHT and FUTURE VISIONS, and an elfin PRINCESS of unearthly power! In GAMMA FORCE NO. 1, see the ORIGINS of the trio as they team up to free their planet from an evil overlord and his PIT OF…
The Dimwit Flathead Memorial Library now archives more than 300 historical newspaper and magazine articles covering Infocom's games, designers, and history, with more articles added each week.