Lurking Horror: Infocom's Only Horror Game

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Published on February 11, 2024 5:00:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R91a-Fi-fGY

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The Lurking Horror (1987)

Duration: 1:29:06

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Lurking Horror is Infocom's 26th game and one of the first produced under their new corporate owners, Activision. Released at a time when the company was already losing ground to the popularity of graphic adventure titles, can they pull off one last great interactive fiction title?

Digital Antiquarian's annotations on the campus: https://www.filfre.net/2015/10/mit-and-gue-or-the-annotated-lurking-horror/

Space War: The first Video Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY4xzhmEPQk
The First Coin-Ops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2V_l2Qh30w

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Timestamps:
0:00:00 Introduction
0:02:50 Narrated Gameplay
1:20:33 Endgame
1:26:55 Analysis

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