http://macintoshgarden.org/taxonomy/term/3002/0 en http://macintoshgarden.org/games/amazon <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_screenshot" width="512" height="342" alt="Game screenshot" src="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/amazon_captain.gif?1310251644" /><p><a href="/games/the-mist">King</a>, <a href="/games/the-hobbit">Tolkien</a>, <a href="/games/fahrenheit-451">Bradbury</a>, <a href="/games/shogun">Clavell</a>. The implicit promise was always the same: <i>this</i> story wasn't thrown together as an afterthought by some caffeinated assembly wiz, but rather bears the mark of <i>top-shelf authorial talent.</i> Of course, in practice the games were mostly ghostwritten, with the marquee name at most being <a href="/games/the-hitchhikers-guide-the-galaxy">an equal partner with the programmer.</a></p> <p><a href="http://macintoshgarden.org/games/amazon" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macintoshgarden.org/games/amazon#comments Interactive Fiction 1984 Text + Illustrations Michael Crichton Telarium Sat, 09 Jul 2011 22:50:13 +0000 Winterlast 4568 at http://macintoshgarden.org