It’s been a while since I last came across an Infocom adventure that I don’t already own. Consequently when I spotted Planetfall a couple of weeks ago I snapped it up straight away. It’s in terrific condition for a 36 year old game and it looks like all the extra bits and bobs are present and correct.
Infocom Planetfall Back Cover
A place for everything and everything in its place!
This is yet another game I’ve never had the pleasure of playing through before. As a result it will be joining my ever growing list of retro titles that I’m looking forward to completing at some point in the (hopefully) not too distant future!
Infocom Planetfall running on my Commodore 64.
Planetfall’s Extra Goodies
An Infocom game just wouldn’t be complete without a bunch of extra physical content included in the box. Planetfall is no exception. Tucked away in the two top pockets there’s a small book, “Today’s Stellar Control”, some intergalactic post cards, an instruction booklet and a some hand-written journal entries. Then in the two slots lower down there’s a plastic Stellar Patrol ID badge and the most important item of all, a floppy disk containing the game.
Here’s a look at some of the other Infocom games in my collection, well the ones I’ve posted about anyway.
Nice folio version of Planetfall. Been trying to get some of them myself. Still a few missing. You can get them from $40-100,- depending on seller + US shipping. Some made it to Europe too. I got infidel. Still nice they have all the “feelies” that came with the original big box release.
Glad you liked it. I’ve been collecting Infocom games for many years now, got quite a few duplicates too from bundled deals and the like. I keep meaning to post more ‘mini reviews’ of them on my site but seldom get around to it!
Great Game, I loved paying it, it las the first floppy game my dad bought me for my Commodore 64. I really Hope Infocom’s games, and many other text based adventures would make a comeback, I feel this generation of kids need to read more and struggle a bit (or a Lot) solving the puzzles and letting their imagination run wild.
Totally agree but I reckon it may prove difficult with the TikTok generations attention span as there’s no instant gratification to be had here. Some of them can’t even watch a YouTube video without either constantly skipping forward or watching it at 2x or 3x speed!
My Dad got me into adventure gaming too, the first one I ever played was called ‘The Count’ – a Scott Adams adventure on a cart for the VIC20. Still got it to this day, and all the others in the series. There was no internet to consult if you got stuck but there was a telephone number you could call if you got really desperate. The parser was quite primitive compared to Infocoms’ but they were still great games. I also loved the Rod Pike horror games on the C64 – these came on multiple cassettes and had some creepy music and graphics and a 15 age rating!