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Author: Drew Cook

An Ouachita-to-Acadiana transplant, occasional poet, and full-time cat person, Drew Cook has a long history of playing video games and writing about literature. In a past life, he worked in the field of information technology, but it wasn't the sort of work that prepared him for wrangling cascading style sheets. Drew is eager to discuss agentic reading with anyone interested and hopes you will find him via his new, barely-used Twitter account.

[2/3] Get Fluff: The Contents of The HItchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

While Cutthroats had more protection than Fort Knox, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy had no “hard” copy protection.

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[1/3] Bookware Boom: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

1984’s Steve Meretzky and Douglas Adams team-up The Hitchhiker‘s Guide to the Galaxy would prove Infocom’s only collaboration between an implementor and a major author, and it sold like crazy (Shogun? What’s a Shogun?).

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Gold Microphone: Zork I

Callie and Drew take a look back to the pioneer days of interactive fiction to explore one of Drew’s all-time favorite games: Zork I!

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[3/3] This Ain’t Jumpman: Cutthroats

128K could’ve and the z-machine should’ve. Maybe then Cutthroats would’ve.

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