A Mind Forever Voyaging

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A Mind Forever Voyaging
Companies Infocom
First release date 1985
Original platform(s) DOS
Optimization notes Z-Machine

Interactive fiction

A Mind Forever Voyaging
A unique Infocom interactive fiction title, casting you as an AI designed to predict the future, by exploring and observing simulated, Matrix-like realities. Emphasizes exploration and observation over puzzles, but realizes "interactive fiction" in a way nothing else really has. Your role as an AI is cleverly reinforced by an interface that allows suspending, resuming, and resetting the simulations, and functions such as reading news feeds and checking facility monitors when out of the simulation. Infocom's most serious and most politically sensitive game; it's devastatingly well written, with detailed descriptions of every scene and object, stories behind every building, landmark, and person, even including a paperback novella good enough to be published separately.
Key people Steve Meretzky