Labels:text | screenshot OCR: 'It bombed. Big-time. Infocom released the thing in early 1985. and by September of that year the lay-offs had already started. By February of 1986 they had slashed the price from $495 to $99. 95, but it didn't help. Within a year over half their staff was gone. "It seemed like help was on the way, though. Activision's CEO was a big Infocom fan, so he bought the company for $7.5 million in early 1986. Infocom started experimenting with their format after that, and published some interesting games -- 'Plundered Hearts, ' a romance-genre IF, designed to bring more women into text adventures; 'Bureaucracy, ' an original game by Douglas Adams, the author o' 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' ; and Leather Goddesses of Phobos' -- " The sailor nudges you in the shoulder with his elbow. "Hoo-boy! ...
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