Infocom reviews (again)

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I've posted on this topic before (as a google search of the group will
show), but I'm interested again.

This page has really great reviews of some Infocom games:

http://members.cox.net/dns361/iindex.html

I'd love to find the rest of the Infocom games reviewed in this level of
detail. Can anyone point me to another website or two?

Thanks,
Rick

 

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"Rick Reynolds" <rick@_UNNEEDED_rickandviv.net> wrote in message
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> I've posted on this topic before (as a google search of the group will
> show), but I'm interested again.
>
> This page has really great reviews of some Infocom games:
>
> http://members.cox.net/dns361/iindex.html

Hey, thanks! (That's me and stuff.)

> I'd love to find the rest of the Infocom games reviewed in this level of
> detail. Can anyone point me to another website or two?

Not really, though Peter Scheyen's Infocom tribute site at
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom has a good roundup of Infocom articles (in the
Lore and Legends section)--some of which are reviews. There are also some at
http://www.sparkynet.com/spag, but I think it's fair to say that most of the
other Infocom reviews are fairly cursory.

I could try to persuade myself to review the rest of the Infocom games, but
it's a hard sell--I had much more time on my hands when I wrote those. (Law
student then, lawyer now.) I might make an exception for Trinity and
possibly AMFV, but no promises.

--Duncan

 

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"Duncan Stevens" <dns361@cox.net> wrote in message
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> I could try to persuade myself to review the rest of the Infocom games,
> but
> it's a hard sell--I had much more time on my hands when I wrote those.
> (Law
> student then, lawyer now.) I might make an exception for Trinity and
> possibly AMFV, but no promises.

I think an exception should be made and, as a fellow lawyer, I fully support
it!

 

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On Wed, 08 Sep 2004 01:43:02 -0400, Duncan Stevens wrote:

>> This page has really great reviews of some Infocom games:
>>
>> http://members.cox.net/dns361/iindex.html
>
> Hey, thanks! (That's me and stuff.)

Well, thanks very much for those reviews. They're very well thought out.

> but I think it's fair to say that
> most of the other Infocom reviews are fairly cursory.

Yep, that's been my experience as well.

I've thought of traipsing through them all in the next couple of years and
writing up reviews as I go. But I don't really think I'm a very good
writer. I'm certainly not very critical, particularly of literary
works, which is why I enjoy reading good reviews so much. They cause me
to rethink and reevaluate the games.

I also understand your time limitations... 🙁

Rick