The irony being no-one even reads them anymore
Excellent eBay cool-hunting blog gamesniped recently linked to an auction for an original PDP-11 manual for seminal text adventure Zork, autographed by creators Mark Blank, Dave Lebling and Joel Berez, along with an original business card from developer Infocom.
Its final price? $2,348.31. The funniest part? Gamesniped's ultra dry warning before their link: "Now, before you see the price on this auction, you should know that there is a very active collecting scene dedicated to Infocom games." [via Waxy]
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snej
#1 – 11:50 AM November 25, 2008
I'm having trouble getting the humor here. Is the price itself supposed to be funny? It's a 30-year-old artifact of one of the all-time classics of computer gaming. I love text adventures, and some of my formative moments as a teenage geek were spent playing the original Zork on a VAX. I wouldn't pay nearly that price for this item, but I have no trouble understanding why some people would. The statement about the 'active collecting scene' is true also, and not surprising considering the quality of the Infocom games and the great little trinkets that came in the packages.
(And what does "no-one even reads them anymore" refer to? Definitely not the games; there's a thriving interactive-fiction scene.)
Andy Baio
#2 – 3:33 PM November 25, 2008
I think Brandon's referring the truism of software design that nobody reads the manuals.