Planetfall
| Implementers |
Steve Meretzky (as S. Eric Meretzky) |
| Release Year | 1983 |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Difficulty | Standard |
"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic worlds, strange and colorful aliens, and Deep Space heroism had danced in your head as you signed the dotted line. And since that day the closest you've come to Deep Space heroism was scrubbing down the radioactive leper colony on Ishmael-3.
But suppose that jumbo fortune cookie you got a Qwang's Take-Out Asteroid last shore leave was right. Maybe you will indeed narrowly escape disaster. It's even possible that you'll actually travel to an unknown corner of the Universe, where you'll save a doomed planet -- or die in the attempt. In fact, we'll guarantee it -- every crumb of it -- because that's just the way the cosmic cookie crumbles.
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From the Library (4 articles)
Infocom Does It Again... And Again Review
With each new release, each new venture into a genre they have made famous, the people at Infocom, authors of Zork and, Deadline, seem to reaffirm a commitment to a level of quality and innovation that has guaranteed them not only a fiercely loyal following, but also an undisputed position at the forefront of the computer adventure market. . . .
Planetfall Review
PLANETFALL (NA / ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) from INFOCOM, is a humorous text adventure which begins aboard the Stellar Patrol Starship Feinstein. You joined the Patrol to find adventure, and you've found it -- your duties consist of scrubbing floors and getting demoted. Things get better though as your ship is destroyed and you escape just in time to crash land on a deserted planet. Actually, the planet does have one inhabitant of a sort -- Floyd, an enthusiastic but not-too-bright robot that you find in an empty laboratory building. With Floyd's help, you must set about unravelling the mysteries concerning the planet. . . .
Planetfall Review
Swabbing the decks of the S.P.S. Feinstein is routine work. (When you joined the Stellar Patrol, you knew you'd have to clean up your act!) The bane of your existence, Ensign Blather, is breathing down your neck as usual. . but the next thing you know, you're the sole survivor for a shipwreck in space hurtling toward an unknown planet in a tiny escape pod. . . .
Here's a second look at three classic titles Marketing
Fooblitzky is a particularly special Infocom product for two reasons. First, it is our only multiplayer computer board game (2-4 players), and second, it uses whimsical graphics -— yes, graphics, to delight and captivate players. In A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky, you leave puzzle-solving behind as you explore realistic worlds of the future and make decisions about the fate of the human race. Travel to the 114th century in author Steve Meretzky’s first story, Planetfall. Planetfall is a hilarious science fiction game full of adventure and galactic intrigue. . . .