Well, this may be of no interest to anyone, and certainly has little to do with my indie game development, but it's my blog, so there! A project I've been working on for decades has been to win all of the old text adventures by Infocom. These classic games were released during (and just before) my teenage years, and thus hold a special place of nostalgia for me. Wikipedia tells more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom, you can find a list of the games here: http://pdd.if-legends.org/infocom/fact-sheet.txt, and all the documentation here: http://infodoc.plover.net/.

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My copy of the games came from the "Lost Treasures of Infocom", volumes 1 and 2. I think I still have the floppy disks around somewhere. The official list of games has 35 canonical Infocom games. Right away I'm going to rule out three of the late games, Journey, Arthur, and Shogun, for a variety of semi-lame excuses:

• They featured heavy illustration, rather than strictly text based (especially Journey, which apparently can be played without keyboard at all).
  
• They aren't part of my Lost Treasures collections.
  
• They are reviewed quite poorly (except for Journey).
  
• I already have enough of these games to play!
  

I'm also going to rule out Sherlock, based on the "developed by Challenge Inc" tagline; Infocom was just the publisher.

So, that leaves me with 31 games. Prior to today, I had completed 13 of them. Let's make a list, in order of best to worst. I should note that this is a bit speculative (and very subjective!) as it has been decades since I played some of these, but based on memory:

Played Games, Best to Worst:

1. Enchanter
   
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
   
3. Sorceror
   
4. Zork III
   
5. Zork II
   
6. Zork I
   
7. Planetfall
   
8. Wishbringer
   
9. Stationfall
   
10. Plundered Hearts
    
11. The Leather Goddesses of Phobos
    
12. Starcross
    
13. Seastalker
    

Games to Play:

1. Spellbreaker
   
2. Trinity
   
3. Beyond Zork
   
4. Zork Zero
   
5. Suspended
   
6. A Mind Forever Voyaging
   
7. Deadline
   
8. The Witness
   
9. Suspect
   
10. Ballyhoo
    
11. Moonmist
    
12. Infidel
    
13. Cutthroats
    
14. Hollywood Hijinx
    
15. Bureaucracy
    
16. Nord and Bert
    
17. The Lurking Horror
    
18. Border Zone
    

Next up, Infidel!