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OCR: >ASK SAILOR ABOUT INFOCOM 'You don't know about. The sailor chuckles, and shakes his head. "You've missed a lot then, kid. Graceful prose Colorful supporting characters. Edge-of-your-seat plots. And the puzzles! Boy, they had some humdingers, lemme tell you. Did I ever tell you how I got the Babel fish by -- "Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. Infocom started way back in the dark days of 1977. Some folks over at M. I. T. 's Dynamic Modeling Group wanted to do the old 'Adventure, ' the original text adventure game, one better, and create a parser that could understand complete English sentences -- or almost complete, at any rate. Fed up with 'GET BOOK, ' 'GO WEST' and all that, I guess. "So Marc Blank, Bruce K. Daniels, Tim Anderson, and Dave Lebling wrote a game called 'Zork, ' in which an ...