Unreleased Infocom Game Found on Old Network Drive


	Unreleased Infocom Game Found on Old Network Drive

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4-22-2008 6:01 AM

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I thought this was an April Fool's joke at first, but it's not. This guy got his hands on an old hard drive from Infocom and found much buried treasure, including playable prototypes of a game that was never released that you can play on the website.

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