Steven Eric Meretzky (born May 1, 1957) is an American video game developer. He is best known for creating Infocom games in the early 1980s, including...
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past its original release date of late 1997 and hired game designer Steve Meretzky to revise the project in February 1998. This resulted in a plan to edit...
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos (category Steve Meretzky games)
Goddesses of Phobos is an interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1986. It was released for the Amiga, Amstrad...
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work on the book but instead enjoyed drinking wine with the owners and Steve Meretzky who had joined him to work on the Hitchhiker's video game. In 1997,...
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The Space Bar (category Steve Meretzky games)
directed by Steve Meretzky, a former Infocom employee who had previously created titles such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Meretzky hoped to design...
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additional game writers (or "Implementers") were hired, notably including Steve Meretzky. Other popular and inventive titles included a number of sequels and...
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A Mind Forever Voyaging (category Steve Meretzky games)
(AMFV) is a 1985 interactive fiction game designed and implemented by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom. The game was intended as a polemical critique...
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It was the first installment of the Spellcasting series created by Steve Meretzky during his time at Legend Entertainment. All three games in the series...
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distributed by Infocom. It was designed by Adams and Infocom regular Steve Meretzky and was one of Infocom's most successful games. As with many Infocom...
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Superhero League of Hoboken (category Steve Meretzky games)
video game developed and published by Legend Entertainment. Designed by Steve Meretzky, the game combines the superhero, comedy and post-apocalypse genres...
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including programmer Mark Poesch, and Steve Meretzky as an author and developer. Founder Bob Bates worked with Meretzky on the company's first games. Although...
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game) (category Steve Meretzky games)
name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and it was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Mac, Commodore...
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and Steve Meretzky of Infocom (1984), involved the author of the original work in the reinterpretation. A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky of Infocom...
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the giving of gifts, and other activities. By the summer of 2009, Steve Meretzky, a contributor to the game and Vice-President of Game Design at Playdom...
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Sorcerer (video game) (category Steve Meretzky games)
Sorcerer is an interactive fiction game written by Steve Meretzky and released by Infocom in 1984. It is the second game in the magic-themed "Enchanter...
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Planetfall (category Steve Meretzky games)
a science fiction themed interactive fiction video game written by Steve Meretzky, and published in 1983 as the eighth game from Infocom. The original...
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Angelsoft The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 1984 Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky of Infocom Mindwheel 1984 Robert Pinsky for Synapse Software Zyll 1984...
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committee comprises Henry Lowood, game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky, Matteo Bittanti, and Joystiq journalist Christopher Grant. The game...
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X! (category Steve Meretzky games)
Leather Goddesses 2 or LGOP2) is a graphic adventure game written by Steve Meretzky and published by Activision in 1992 under the Infocom label. LGOP2 is...
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in 2012. Adams created an interactive fiction version of HHGG with Steve Meretzky from Infocom in 1984. In 1986 he participated in a week-long brainstorming...
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Mechner), Berzerk (Alan McNeil), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Steve Meretzky), Crystal Castles (Franz X. Lanzinger), Tetris (Alexey Pajitnov), Sheep...
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Simulations Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The 1984 Douglas Adams, Steve Meretzky Infocom Hobbit, The 1983 Beam Software Melbourne House Hocus Pocus 1994...
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Micro Learn The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 1984 Douglas Adams & Steve Meretzky Infocom The Hobbit: A Software Adventure 1982 Beam Software Addison-Wesley...
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Stanford University together with game designers Warren Spector and Steve Meretzky, researcher Matteo Bittanti and journalist Christopher Grant compiled...
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CyberCash filed for bankruptcy a year later. Written by game designer Steve Meretzky of Infocom fame, The Space Bar by Boffo Games was originally to be published...
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Zork Zero (category Steve Meretzky games)
Revenge of Megaboz is an interactive fiction video game, written by Steve Meretzky over nearly 18 months and published by Infocom in 1988. Although it...
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among the top 100. Andrew Plotkin, Buster Hudson, Chandler Groover, Steve Meretzky, inkle, Brendan Patrick Hennessy, mathbrush, Steph Cherrywell, Jon Ingold...
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you play as the protagonist of the game A Mind Forever Voyaging by Steve Meretzky published by Infocom (1985) Mother Brain, from Metroid (1986) GW, designed...
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Stationfall (category Steve Meretzky games)
Stationfall is an interactive fiction game written by Steve Meretzky and released by Infocom in 1987. It was published for the Commodore 64, Amiga, Amstrad...
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browsers or smart speakers. Four gamebooks, written by Infocom developer Steve Meretzky and set in the Zork world, were published in 1983–1984: The Forces of...
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