Dear Activision: if you absolutely must sell these games in their original Infocom bundles, how about the Fantasy Collection next? It's got the four Zork spin-offs in it! It seems like a good way for you to continue your momentum from the existing Zork releases.

Actually, I'd like most of the 1995 collections, but from a business perspective, I'd release Fantasy first. Science Fiction seems like it'd get tied up negotiating with Douglas Adams' estate, but I know it'd be popular if HGttG was still there. What about you, GOG fans? If you had to pick from the Mystery, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy or Sci-Fi collections, which would you want first?

First, I think the Fantasy Collection would be best, because the games in it are considered to take place in the Zork universe.

Second, I would like the Sci-Fi collection. I know that HGttG might be difficult to get the rights to, but I hope it's possible; I need me some AMFV!

Third place goes to the Mystery Collection. I love a good murder mystery and the games in this series, such as Deadline, are an important part of Infocom's history.

My only request: Please make absolutely sure to include as much of the bonus items as possible, especially the AMFV prologue short story, and the Deadline police report. Of course, all of them are important, but some are essential parts of the experience! The Deadline police report is one of the most important bonus items in the history of bonus items!

I don't expect to get a glow-in-the-dark wishbringer stone in the mail, but the paper goods are a must!

I wholeheartedly support this request. The Zork text adventure games, although easily frustrating and prone to make me check the hints or a walkthrough one time too often, always have something intriguing about them to me, and I would absolutely love to own the other 4 games from that universe - the Enchanter trilogy and, to an extent, Wishbringer. The minute these (or, even better, the Fantasy collection) hit GOG, they'll be in my account.
Let's hope they get on it!

Bump. I just want to remind everyone (especially the GOG.com staff) that some of us would REALLY appreciate the release of more Infocom games!

The Infocom games were out in bundles of 20 or so back in the early '90s for maybe $40 a bundle. These should be released in a digital format as they are, at whatever price.

No one really has any business expecting payment for these games, because there are tens of thousands of copies lying around unused by their owners, which cannot be sold or given away because they have degraded or the media is no longer used. The original presentation is also worthless, because to play these games on a modern system you must load the .dat files into an interpreter such as Frotz or Gargoyle.

The results of all this: Very low public interest in an important piece of gaming history, unnecessary sidelining of interactive fiction as a form today, and almost no money for anybody because 90% of the Infocom catalog cannot be purchased legally except through the mail on obsolete and fragile media.

And you guys want GOG or Activision to put these out at $2 a pop? What happens when we get to Borderzone, Nord & Bert, and The Lurking Horror? Do you think more than a few hundred people are going to buy those in a bundle together?

Let's see the whole catalog out for $10, and use the renewed interest in interactive fiction to start selling text adventures by true masters of the form like Adam Cadre and Emily Short, who are still creating today and have been giving their games away free for far too long.