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{{Short description|Collection of video games from 1996}}
'''''Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom''''' is a collection of 33 [[computer game]]s from [[interactive fiction]] pioneer [[Infocom]], and the top 6 winners of the 1995 [[Interactive Fiction Competition]], released in 1996. All 39 games are combined on a single cross-platform CD-ROM, which also includes [[PDF]]s of all the Infocom games' instructions, maps, and hint booklets.<ref name="NGen24"/>

Infocom was closed in 1989 by its then-parent company [[Activision]]. Still holding the [[copyright]] to nearly all the past Infocom titles, Activision bundled them together in this collection, following up the earlier ''[[The Lost Treasures of Infocom|Lost Treasures of Infocom]]'' series. The Infocom games included are:
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* ''[[Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur]]''
* ''[[Ballyhoo (video game)|Ballyhoo]]''
* ''[[Beyond Zork]]''
* ''[[Border Zone (video game)|Border Zone]]''
* ''[[Bureaucracy (video game)|Bureaucracy]]''
* ''[[Cutthroats (video game)|Cutthroats]]''
* ''[[Deadline (1982 video game)|Deadline]]''
* ''[[Enchanter (video game)|Enchanter]]''
* ''[[Hollywood Hijinx]]''
* ''[[Infidel (video game)|Infidel]]''
* ''[[Journey (1989 video game)|Journey]]''
* ''[[Leather Goddesses of Phobos]]''
* ''[[The Lurking Horror]]''
* ''[[A Mind Forever Voyaging]]''
* ''[[Moonmist]]''
* ''[[Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It]]''
* ''[[Planetfall]]''
* ''[[Plundered Hearts]]''
* ''[[Seastalker]]''
* ''[[Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels]]''
* ''[[Sorcerer (video game)|Sorcerer]]''
* ''[[Spellbreaker]]''
* ''[[Starcross (video game)|Starcross]]''
* ''[[Stationfall]]''
* ''[[Suspect (video game)|Suspect]]''
* ''[[Suspended (video game)|Suspended]]''
* ''[[Trinity (video game)|Trinity]]''
* ''[[Wishbringer]]''
* ''[[The Witness (1983 video game)|The Witness]]''
* ''[[Zork I]]''
* ''[[Zork II]]''
* ''[[Zork III]]''
* ''[[Zork Zero]]''
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The Interactive Fiction Competition winners included are:

* ''[[A Change in the Weather]]''
* ''[[The Magic Toyshop (computer game)|The Magic Toyshop]]''
* ''[[The Mind Electric]]''
* ''[[The One That Got Away (computer game)|The One That Got Away]]''
* ''[[Toonesia]]''
* ''Uncle Zebulon's Will''

The collection includes all the contents of the two ''Lost Treasures of Infocom'' collections except for ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and ''[[James Clavell's Shōgun]]''. The rights to these two games, based on novels by [[Douglas Adams]] and [[James Clavell]], respectively, had reverted to the novels' authors. Unlike the ''Lost Treasures'' collections, though, ''Masterpieces'' included the adult game ''Leather Goddesses of Phobos''.

==Reception==
A reviewer for ''[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]]'' scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."<ref name="NGen24">{{cite magazine|title=Infocom Masterpieces|magazine=[[Next Generation (magazine)|Next Generation]] |issue=24|publisher=[[Imagine Media]]|date=December 1996|page=272}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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