Michael’s sealed IBM PC copy
> EXAMINE PLANETFALL
INFOCOM · 1983
Planetfall
MICHAEL’S HISTORY WITH THIS WORLD
CONDITION ASSESSMENT
FFineA sealed, attractive, sound copy with moderate visible wear.
Photo + owner inspection · not third-party certifiedYou begin as Ensign Seventh Class aboard the S.P.S. Feinstein, enduring the petty tyranny of Blather and wondering whether five generations of family service have brought you to this: polishing Deck Nine. Then the ship comes apart, the job stops being a joke, and a deserted planet asks everything of you. Steve Meretzky makes Resida funny, lonely, and increasingly desperate, but its great invention is Floyd: not a mechanism that assists the hero, but a companion who changes what being the hero means. This is the game that proved a parser could make a friendship feel real. For Michael, it is not merely an Infocom classic; it is one of the worlds that made this whole wall necessary.
THE ARCHIVE DRAWER
The world beyond the box.
Twenty-eight photographs. The sealed IBM PC grey box front and back; the 1983 folio edition that preceded it; the Solid Gold reissue for the Apple II; the folio manual across six of its pages; Michael’s Planetfall map; and fifteen feelies from Michael’s own package: the Special Assignment Task Force I.D. card, postcards from Nebulon, Accardia, and Ramos II, and Michael’s seven-page Stellar Patrol diary. The grey box shows a heavy shrink-wrap sheen across the poster and, on its back, the 55 Wheeler Street address Infocom used before it moved to CambridgePark Drive.