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From: Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The Passing of the Mad Overlord
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:01:35 +0200
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On 9/4/2024 4:30 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

> Infocom did better with its non-text games ("The Crescent Hawks
> Revenge", "Mines of Titan") but it was obviously genres they were not
> skilled in, and their games always felt dated in comparison to their
> contemporaries. That, combined with their lack of focus on games
> (Infocom was betting big on creating a relational database) and their
> ongoing financial issues (because people didn't want to buy games
> without pretty graphics) pretty much sealed their fate.
> 

Weren't those already done when they were basically bought amd 
supplanted by Activision in all but name?