Cutthroats
| Implementers |
Michael Berlyn Jerry Wolper |
| Release Year | 1984 |
| Genre | Tales of Adventure |
| Difficulty | Standard |
YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET YOURSELF INTO VERY DEEP TROUBLE.
You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest characters has in mind for you. It's a simple business proposition: all you have to do is locate and salvage a fortune in sunken treasure. You stand to gain millions. The only drawback is, it could cost you your neck. Because to successfully recover the treasure, you'll have to survive the perils of diving in unknown waters -- and the even greater danger of an untrustworthy crew. But none of that will stop you from taking the plunge. You're the type who believes that when stakes are this high, even when your odds are this low, it's worth running the risks of dealing with CUTTHROATS.
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From the Library (7 articles)
You're About to Get Yourself into Very Deep Trouble News
Nights on Hardscrabble Island are lonely and cold when the lighthouse barely pierces the gloom. You sit on your bed, thinking of better times and far-off places. A knock on your door stirs you, and Hevlin, a shipmate you haven't seen for years staggers in. . . .
~2 minute read
Cutthroats News
In Infocom's top-selling adventure game "Cutthroats," the player is a skilled diver attempting to salvage a sunken treasure from one of four shipwrecks. . . .
~1 minute read
Cutthroats Review
CUTTHROATS (NA / âââÂŊ) takes interactive fiction to the depths of the seas surrounding Hardscrabble Island. As an expert dirver with knowledge of the four local shipwrecks, your talents are in demand for finding and gathering the sunken treasures. Only one little problem, though -- the guys demanding your talents are the most untrustworthy lot imaginable. . . .
~1 minute read
Cutthroats: As Told by Scorpia Walkthrough Spoilers
Holiday season is here! The time when Santa leaves all those little diskettes full of fun under your Christmas tree, and friends and family gather in front of a warm computer, to play adventure games! Santa visits us here at the Tale, too, but he's always been a little puzzled by Fred; he can't understand why Fred always asks for broken lightbulbs. . . .
~8 minute read
Infocom's New Adventure -- New Packaging News
Cutthroats by Infocom is presented in a striking, newly-designed box. Touted as "booklike," the more compact format is easier for retailers to display -- and for consumers to store. A bound-in booklet that the consumer can examine before purchasing gives details and a preview of the program, along with sample dialogue. The entire current and future Infocom adventure line is scheduled for this format. . . .
~1 minute read
Cutthroats Review
Cutthroats follows Infidel as Infocom's second installment in Tales of Adventure series. True-to-life dangers and rewards are the cornerstones of this series. You'll find no magic -- nor little elves -- to aid you. . . .
~3 minute read
Cutthroats Review
You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble, says the Cutthroats packaging. It's true! The latest in Infocom's True Tales of Adventure series will trouble serious fans, due to several seemingly illogical and arbitrary key puzzles. . . .
~1 minute read
In the Box (21 images)
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Historical Sales Data
Weekly Sales Ranking
Top weekly ranking: #10
Weeks in top 20: 18
Source: Billboard's "Top Computer Software" charts, ostensibly prepared from retailer-provided sales data. Billboard began publishing software charts on 8 October 1983 and published the charts weekly until 31 August 1985, then biweekly or monthly beginning 14 September 1985. Billboards editors considered computer games a vulgar art and never took them seriously, making many typographical and factual errors in the retail charts, eventually discontinuing them on 27 September 1986.
Units Shipped By Year
| 1984 | |
| 1985 | |
| 19862 | |
| 87-893 |
Total units shipped: 78,505
Overall ranking: 11 of 32
Accounts for 3% of units sold
2 Data for 1986 includes units shipped through June 1986 only
3 Data for April 1987 - March 1989
Source: (1981-1989) Internal Infocom documents, archived by Steve Meretezky
Editions (1 styles)
Grey Box (1984+)
Game box, plastic cover over contents
Game manual and "True Tales of Adventure" (bound into box)
Game disk in grey Infocom sleeve (no sleeve for 3-1/2" disk) OR Commodore-branded game disk in Commodore disk sleeve
"Four Shipwrecks off Hardscrabble Island" book
Outfitters International price list/tide table
System-specific reference card
Warranty registration card
Product catalog and/or product poster
Invisiclues order form
Game disk and sleeve may be Infocom-branded or Commodore-branded for C64 copies, but other box contents are identical.
