Lost Treasures of Infocom App Reviews

Please sell this in the Mac app store. Im a (very longtime) Mac developer and I would help you port what you have over to the Mac for free. This would be so much better because: keyboard support, the ability to play the game in one window and have the map open at the same time in another. I purchased this product in 1993 for the Mac in the form of "Lost Treasures of Inform I & II" and then I bought the whole thing again in the late 90s bought on a CD with the games on it. I also used to drool over these games in the 1980s at "Software Etc.". I was a kid and couldnt afford them. I did play a bootleg copy of Zork I for the Apple ][ around 1983 and a pirated copy of Leather Goddesses of Phobos a bit later. Both of the packages I bought in the 90s were for the Mac, but obviously it was pre-OS X so youd have to run them in an emulator today, or there is a way to extra the playable game and run it on a Z-machine. But thats really more work than Id be up for when wanting the play. Plus, I love having the companion docs for the games. So a modern MacOS X version of Lost Treasures of Infocom would be amazing. I think I bought Lost Treasures even more times than I have purchased the album "Los Angeles" by X (cassette, vinyl, CD, remastered CD, and finally iTunes), Id be happy to buy this one again on Mac.

The keyboard is in the iPhone 5 style, too large for the screen and interferes with the aesthetic. I like the app overall, good job. Missing some favorites, as others have noted, and the map for Suspended is not usable.

This is a great collection of Infocom games but it is NOT complete. Missing are the understandable why. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, as the Douglas Adams estate own it, Missing is, The Journey Begins, not sure why this is not in the collection. It would be a more complete collection to include that one. I like the fact that there is an option to buy the invisible clues that came with the games and the art work of boxes are awesome. Also there is scan of the "feelies" that came with each game and that is also awesome. There are maps of the games with help, if you like text based games then this collection of Infocom games is. MUST buy

What could possibly be the reason?

Some suggestions... 1. Please make this app 64-bit so we can continue to play in iOS 11. 2. Add 12.9" iPad Pro support so it scales nicer 3. Add the iOS 10 keyboard (or let us pick 3rd party ones) 4. It would be great if we could custom name our saves instead of using just a number... Please look at Frotz for iOS to see how they do it. Much more intuitive. 5. Add iCloud support so we can play seamlessly between devices. 6. Please update with a new collection to include: Beyond Zork Zork Zero Bureaucracy Hitchhikers Guide Nord & Bert Journey Sherlock Shogun Arthur

If you enjoyed these classics in the 80s and feel its time for some oldschool reminiscing, youve finally come to the ... ... wrong place, at least if youre blind. The iPhone includes a screen reader which makes it accessible to blind users. Unfortunately, LTOI was designed in such a way that it is completely unusable with this technology. So they managed to take something entirely textual and blind-friendly and turn it into something that doesnt work for us at all. Epic failure.

It finally downloaded! Anyway, you can tell they put a lot of work into this its got the manuals, maps and even pictures of the trinkets you get with the game. Wow. I am seriously impressed. Im upping it to five stars simply because they obviously put a ton of effort into the games and trying to get them to run mobile properly. If your not into text adventures then dont get this. If you are! This is the bomb. Seriously. I bought em all. I will have just as much fun reading the manuals as playing the games haha. Get it if you love IF

This is a nicely put together app for text based adventures. I bought the whole package too. It would be nice to see future updates, with more adventures (for those who purchase the full version).

As a visually impaired user, I mostly played text adventure games when I was growing up, and the games by Infocom were some of my favorites. When I heard that these games were now available to play on an iOS device like my iPod Touch, I instantly got excited and downloaded the program, only to find that its totally unusable with the built-in screen reader, Voiceover. None of the buttons speak, so it was impossible for me to start the included Zork I game, read the documentation, etc. I hope Activision will include accessibility enhancements in a future update so that everyone can enjoy these classic text adventures.

Its nice to revisit old Infocom classics, and the 3D rendering of feelies is a nice touch.

I love the care that was put into this collection. Only bad part is playing on a touch keyboard. Please, what we need now is a Steam version.

This is a wonderful app. The Infocom interactive fiction games were unusually well-produced with many "feelies" (extras such as maps, comics and souvenirs) that give important clues to the games. These extras are incorporated into the app in a beautiful way, preserving the magic of the games in a way I thought would be impossible. The developers have done a great job bringing these classics back to life. Id give this six stars if I could!

Enough said.

If someone had told me in 1986 that in the future I could buy all the Infocom text adventures and their matching InvisiClues for less than the price of a single title, Id tell them that they were barking mad. If someone further said that I would get to play them on a computer the size and thickness of a pad of paper while lounging comfortably on my sofa, I would have considered them madder still. And yet, here I am, doing exactly that. The app itself is made with lots of love. It reimagines the user interface, turning it into a first class game-playing engine on a touch device. Even the original boxes (complete with the badges "For IBM" and "For Commodore 64" along the edge) and 3D-rotatable images of the original Feelies are included. This is a class act. Thank you Activision for making all of these great text adventures available in such a wonderfully made app.

Infocom games have always been venerable favourites of mine. Born in a time when imagination and twisted minds infused wit and humour into challenging text based game play. Highly recommended for those who wish to rediscover the beauty of the classics.

I love it but no hitchhikers guide to the galaxy I think it has everything else I know you can get hitchhikers guide for free on the internet but that didnt matter it should still be included anyhow I would be willing to pay for all the extras

Очень круто сделали. One of best games on my IPad. Realization is very cool and useful. Please, add ICloud save file sync! Or move save files to Documents folder.

Very good app! Thanks a lot! Can you please add iCloud auto sync for games?!

Activision did a great job on porting their games to the iPad. Hitchhikers Guide is available thru the Gotz app along with all the Zorks. Too bad one app does not rule them all.

I cut my gaming teeth on Infocom games and the effort and attention to detail that Activision put into this app made the $9.99 purchase a no brainier for me. Heres hoping they add the missing titles - Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, Hitchhikers Guide and Nord and Bert. Id gladly pay extra for these. Thanks, Activision!