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Originally Posted by vkeios
Activision was planning on releasing a new collection back in 2006. It got canceled due to lack of interest though.
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It's too bad. I immersed myself in the old Infocom games for WAAAAY too many hours when I was younger. I always had a blast with them.
With the recent popularity of "app" programs, which are necessarily simpler than programs that run on full-power computers, Activision could repackage the text adventure programs and sell them for a buck or two a pop, with the public-domain Zork titles as free "loss leaders".
Ebook readers are best as readers. It just feels like this is an "Ah-ha!" sort of product. Text adventure games *are* basically just "interactive books". All you do is read them and make simple typing choices.
One of the authors who posts here put up a "Choose Your Own Adventure" style ebook. I don't see the old text adventure games as being any different.
Kudos to the original programmer who set up the server-side code to process the old Infocom data files.