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georgeecollins • today at 1:43 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

There is more value in remastering old games than you might think. And there always has been. One of my first gigs in the game industry was producing an Infocom Clasics CD-ROM at Activision. That’s games from the seventies and eighties re-released in the nineties.


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ndiddy • today at 2:40 AM

Was it an issue that Infocom had been shut down? For example for making a version of the Z-Machine for Windows 95 or whatever was current. Did Activision have an archive of all the Infocom development stuff, or were you able to go off of whatever documentation fans had come up with when they were making unofficial Z-Machine interpreters?

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applfanboysbgon • today at 1:49 AM

If you have the rights to sell them, yes.