The original colonists signed the " Covenant of Planetfall ", agreeing that this outcome was just recompense for the labors of the crew during the voyage ; that they signed at gunpoint as they were awakened from hibernation is kept secret from later generations, and also that those who refused, died.

Since January 18, 2011 Zork Anthology ( featuring Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero and Planetfall ) is internationally available at GOG. com, in a form of digital download.

The actual reason light acts as such a potent Achilles ' heel for grues is inconsistently given — some games imply that grues find levels of light ordinary for humans to be intolerably, blindingly painful but can nonetheless survive it ( such as in Planetfall, where an obviously grue-like creature exists in a lit laboratory, " squinting and cursing at the light " — although the laboratory contains other creatures that are clearly mutants, so it is possible that this grue is simply a mutant that is able to survive in a lighted area.

* Planetfall at the unofficial Infocom Homepage

But the task does authorize the use of a robot assistant, and coincidentally enough, Floyd, a beloved companion revived at the end of Planetfall, is one of the choices.

Five games ( Zork I, Planetfall, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Wishbringer and Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) were re-released in Solid Gold format.

Additionally, Planetfall makes reference to grues having been unwittingly taken from their home planet ( which is implied to be the world on which Zork takes place ) and introduced to Earth by the alien ship in Starcross, then subsequently spread around the galaxy alongside man and become a universal pest for human civilizations.

Planetfall is a science fiction interactive fiction computer game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published by Infocom in 1983.

Although Planetfall was Meretzky's first title, it proved one of his most popular works and a best-seller for Infocom ; it was one of five top-selling titles to be re-released in Solid Gold versions including in-game hints.

* has screenshots of Planetfall on a variety of systems and credits for the game.

The package merely contained photocopies or pictures of these items, such as the sunglasses from Hitchhiker's Guide and the Stellar Patrol ID card from Planetfall.

The Infocom game Planetfall is a sort of sequel, since the technology gained in " Starcross " is used in the spaceships of that game, set somewhat further in the future.

* In the computer game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri The United Nations Starship Unity's colony pods holding the seven factions of the game make Planetfall on Chiron, in the Alpha Centauri system.

This unleashes a mutant chase reminiscent of Planetfall where the adventurer stays one step ahead of the Rat Ants because of the shrewdly placed candy bars.

Planetfall box art.

The game is a sequel to Planetfall, one of Infocom's most popular titles.

Following the events on Resida in Planetfall, the player's character received a promotion from lowly Ensign Seventh Class to Lieutenant First Class.

While many fans reportedly wept over Floyd's death in Planetfall, the game ended on a happy note as he was repaired.

Activision, which acquired Infocom's intellectual property, planned a graphic adventure sequel that would center around Floyd's resurrection, as hinted by the projected title, Planetfall: The Search for Floyd.

A unique game for its time, Portal was one part text-driven adventure ( à la Zork or Planetfall ) but with a graphical interface.

* Cutthroats information at Infocom-if. org

* Stationfall at Infocom-if. org

He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

She had reached a point at which she didn't even care how she looked.

He stood looking down at her for a moment, wondering what could have reduced her to this condition.

He dismissed the possibility at once.

She sat down at the table, shaking her head.

The grateful way she looked at Morgan made him ashamed of himself.

He nodded at the door in front of him.

He wiped his lips with a sleeve, then stared at Clayton in a childish kind of wonder.

they rode at a measured pace through the valley.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

Then at last the darkness began to dissolve.

First he thought of the time he had ridden to Gavin and told him how his cattle were being rustled at the far end of the valley.

He wouldn't even dance with her at Gavin's party.

There are plenty of fresh horses halfway at my place.

They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

He looked over his shoulder at the thin dotting of pursuers.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

But it at least offered him a chance for living.

She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

Beyond the stockade rifles began to explode as some of the guerrillas fired at shadows that they imagined were Apaches.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.