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Infocom
Industry
Video games
Founded
June 22, 1979 (1979-06-22)
Founders
Tim Anderson
Joel Berez
Marc Blank
Mike Broos
Scott Cutler
Stu Galley
Dave Lebling
J. C. R. Licklider
Chris Reeve
Al Vezza
Defunct
Closed on May 5, 1989 (1989-05-05)[1]
Fate
Merged into Activision on 13 June 1986[2]
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Key people
Joel Berez (president, CEO)
Products
Zork Deadline Planetfall The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy A Mind Forever Voyaging Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Parent
Activision
Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database called Cornerstone.[3]
Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979, by staff and students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lasted as an independent company until 1986, when it was bought by Activision. Activision shut down the Infocom division in 1989, although they released some titles in the 1990s under the Infocom Zork brand. Activision abandoned the Infocom trademark in 2002.
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