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Subject: Re: What are Shogun and Aurthur Like?
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In <1995May9.220608.16995@guvax>, reillyb@gusun.georgetown.edu (Brian Reilly) writes:
>I've played most of the old Infocom games, but haven't played 
>Arthur or Shogun.  I bought LTOI 2 before they issued the CD
>with Journey, Shogun, and Arthur.  I've playes Journey, and thought
>it was OK, but not great.  Is it worth buting or trading for a
>copy of LTOI 2 CD for Shogun and Arthur?
>Either mail me or continue this thread.  Thanks,

Shogun is interesting, but not a great game, as it sticks too much to 
the plot of the novel.

Arthur was the last true Infocom game, of the same type as Zork Zero
and Shogun, and very similar to the games later produced by Legend.
This should be no surprise.  The author of Arthur, Bob Bates, has the
distinction of having written two games for Infocom, the very last
text game (Sherlock) and the very last graphically-enhanced game 
based on the Z machine (Arthur); when Activision killed and ate 
Infocom, he went on to found Legend.

