Description

Infocom was a software company founded by staff and students from MIT, mainly from the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS). Though Infocom was first founded as a software company, the company’s first product was an interactive fiction game called Zork, which was developed by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, and Bruce Daniels while they were at the LCS. Infocom went on to release more text-based games before releasing the ultimately unsuccessful database program Cornerstone in 1985. A year later, the company was acquired by Activision.