

Not like today's game where you have to buy it as a premium collector edition crap. Included in the Wishbringer package are several items, which Infocom called feelies:Ī book, The Legend of Wishbringer, that explains how the magic stone came to be (in the Solid Gold release, an in-game object included in the player's starting inventory instead of the packaging), the envelope and letter to be delivered to Ye Olde Magick Shoppe, a "postal zone map" of Festeron and a plastic glow-in-the-dark replica of the stone.Īll of this was FREE as in beer.

Craig Shaw Gardner novelized Wishbringer in the Infocom Book line. It was one of five top-selling titles to be re-released in Solid Gold versions including in-game hints. It was intended to be an easier game to solve than the typical Infocom release, and provide a good introduction to interactive fiction for inexperienced players. You can also check out the complete 7,000 MS-DOS games the Internet Archive has been adding to its collection, including The Oregon Trail, SimCity, Prince of Persia, Pac-Man and Wolfenstein 3D.Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams is an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and published by Infocom in 1985. Once in the game, you can use keyboard to control the game and make selections. Press an appropriate key to advance to the game.ĥ. After the game file has been downloaded into your browser's memory, a window or two may appear with a prompt. In the next window, tap the power icon to launch the emulator and the game.Ĥ. Locate a game you want to play from the list of 2,500 games and tap its title.ģ. Head to the Internet Library's latest software collection of MS-DOS games.Ģ.

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