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	Title: LGOP and Planetfall Solid Gold at $14.95
	Author: Infocom staff
	Source: The Status Line, v7(2)
	Date: Summer 1988
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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During the past year, we have begun to confer Solid Gold status on
certain venerable titles. These are best-sellers which have begun to slow
down. In some ways, our Solid Gold software can be compared to paperback
books —- the whole game is there but in a simpler package. However, in
the case of Solid Gold software, we're adding something more —- on-screen
hints. At $14.95 retail, these wonderful old titles are getting a second life
and attracting a new group of computer owners to interactive fiction.

*Zork I* and *Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* have been quite successful
as Solid Gold (in these two cases. we should have called it Solid Platinum).
Now we are pleased to announce that our 1986 hit, *Leather Goddesses of
Phobos*, and Steve Meretzky's first hit, *Planetfall*, will be joining them.

Solid Gold *Leather Goddesses*, due to ship in June, was the fastest selling
new title in Infocom's s history. In *Leather Goddesses* you are kidnapped
by minions of the evil Leather Goddesses, who are plotting to turn earth
into their private pleasure palace.

Your goal is to defeat the lustful leather maidens and save humanity
from their dastardly plan. *Leather Goddesses* is a hilarious spoof of
1930's pulp science fiction with a dash of space opera thrown in for good
measure. Despite the title and the three naughtiness levels, Leather Goddesses
is *not* X-rated. We would call it "R" (some would say "PG-13").

"Leather Goddesses *is an uproarious role-playing romp that heralds a
new breed of computer games.*"
<br><span style="padding-left: 25%;">Newsweek</span>

"Leather Goddesses of Phobos *is humorous and fast-moving, and even
when the writing is ribald, it is never cheap—it is amusing and clever.*"
<br><span style="padding-left: 25%;">A+</span>

*Video Review* magazine awarded Steve Meretzky the Best Computer
Software Designer of 1983 for his first work, *Planetfall*. Set 120 centuries in
the future, you are an Ensign Seventh Class in the Stellar Patrol. You wanted
to see the galaxy, but all you've seen so far is the other end of the mop
you're using. But soon you're marooned on a doomed planet, your only
companion a robot named Floyd with the personality of an eight-year-old.
Your goal is to save this world, and yourself from destruction.

In polls of our fans, *Planetfall* repeatedly comes in at the top of the list
of most-loved games. *Planetfall* has probably generated more fan mail than
any other Infocom game. Guaranteed to make you laugh and make you cry.

"*The invention of the robot sidekick was a stroke of genius.*"
<br><span style="padding-left: 25%;">Video Review</span>

"Planetfall *is as remarkable, funny, perplexing, and entertaining a game
as you are likely to find anywhere...*"
<br><span style="padding-left: 25%;">Creative Computer</span>
