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OCR: 'Now, that sounds high-falutin' , but these guys lived up to their promises. The Infocom games were head-and-shoulders above everybody else's products. They were just like novels, but novels that you were the main character in. And they didn't just do fantasy, neither. They did mysteries, like 'Deadline, ' and science fiction -- 'Suspended, ' 'Starcross, ' and 'Planetfall,' with Floyd, the robot sidekick. In 'Border Zone' they tried out the spy genre, and with 'Infidel, ' Indiana Jones-type stuff. Infocom mixed the brain-teasers with a lotta tongue-in-cheek humor, and it caught on, fast. People who knew adventure games new Infocom was the best. By the end of 1985, they posted sales Df 6. 5 million bucks! Not bad for a li'l ol' 'text adventure' outfit, hanh?" >SAILOR, WHERE IS INFOCOM? The ...