[SWCollect] Serious look at IF

2004-04-16 Thread Lee K. Seitz
This just came across Slashdot: http://books.slashdot.org/books/04/04/14/0137208.shtml?tid=127&tid=186&tid=188&tid=192. It's a *very* long review of a new book that gives a scholarly look at interactive fiction (IF) and its history. The book is called _Twisty Little Passages: An Approach to Intera

Re: [SWCollect] Planetfall 2

2004-04-16 Thread Peter Olafson
Lee,   Thanks for that. :)    Just as an aside, that was the first of two Activision attempts to resurrect Planetfall; the second, as I recall, didn't involve Steve M.    Peter  

[SWCollect] Planetfall 2

2004-04-16 Thread Lee K. Seitz
Remember a while back when Jim posted a preview of Planetfall 2? Well, today I found a copy of a "CD Mag" called Interactive Entertainment. It contains a story on the game, which it calls Return to Planetfall: Floyd Strikes Back. (It's IE #6, Sep 1994.) Here's the text of it. ---BEGIN---