~2 minute readLGOP and Planetfall Solid Gold at $14.95
During the past year, we have begun to confer Solid Gold status on certain venerable titles. These are best-sellers which have begun to slow down. In some ways, our Solid Gold software can be compared to paperback books —- the whole game is there but in a simpler package. However, in the case of Solid Gold software, we're adding something more —- on-screen hints. At $14.95 retail, these wonderful old titles are getting a second life and attracting a new group of computer owners to interactive fiction.
Zork I and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy have been quite successful as Solid Gold (in these two cases. we should have called it Solid Platinum). Now we are pleased to announce that our 1986 hit, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and Steve Meretzky's first hit, Planetfall, will be joining them.
Solid Gold Leather Goddesses, due to ship in June, was the fastest selling new title in Infocom's s history. In Leather Goddesses you are kidnapped by minions of the evil Leather Goddesses, who are plotting to turn earth into their private pleasure palace.
Your goal is to defeat the lustful leather maidens and save humanity from their dastardly plan. Leather Goddesses is a hilarious spoof of 1930's pulp science fiction with a dash of space opera thrown in for good measure. Despite the title and the three naughtiness levels, Leather Goddesses is not X-rated. We would call it "R" (some would say "PG-13").
"Leather Goddesses is an uproarious role-playing romp that heralds a
new breed of computer games."
Newsweek
"Leather Goddesses of Phobos is humorous and fast-moving, and even
when the writing is ribald, it is never cheap—it is amusing and clever."
A+
Video Review magazine awarded Steve Meretzky the Best Computer Software Designer of 1983 for his first work, Planetfall. Set 120 centuries in the future, you are an Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patrol. You wanted to see the galaxy, but all you've seen so far is the other end of the mop you're using. But soon you're marooned on a doomed planet, your only companion a robot named Floyd with the personality of an eight-year-old. Your goal is to save this world, and yourself from destruction.
In polls of our fans, Planetfall repeatedly comes in at the top of the list of most-loved games. Planetfall has probably generated more fan mail than any other Infocom game. Guaranteed to make you laugh and make you cry.
"The invention of the robot sidekick was a stroke of genius."
Video Review
"Planetfall is as remarkable, funny, perplexing, and entertaining a game
as you are likely to find anywhere..."
Creative Computer
These historical, out-of-print articles and literary works have been GNUSTOed onto InvisiClues.org for academic and research purposes.
