Milliways - the game
Amazing story. If you ever played any of the early text games like Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, etc... you will know the name Infocom.
I'll let Andy Baio
take it from here:
Milliways: Infocom's Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" � a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989. This is one of the most amazing archives I've ever seen, a treasure chest documenting the rise and fall of the legendary interactive fiction game company. Among the assets included: design documents, email archives, employee phone numbers, sales figures, internal meeting notes, corporate newsletters, and the source code and game files for every released and unreleased game Infocom made.
For obvious reasons, I can't share the whole Infocom Drive. But I have to share some of the best parts. It's just too good.
What follows is an amazing story. The 300+ comments are great too as many of the original people involved have found this post and are putting up their own reminiscences as well.
Posted by DaveH at April 20, 2008 4:28 PM