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	Title: What If...
	Source: Questbusters, v5(4)
	Date: April 1988
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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Infocom added graphics to their text adventures? Released a Wizardry clone?
Instituted a "Bruce Youth" program that fines employees a quarter for each negative
remark they make about the company? These and more questions were
raised in a letter sent to QB and several other computer magazines—apparently
written (but not signed, and with no phone or address for verification) by *Ballyhoo*
author Jeff O'Neill, whom the letter says was recently laid off. The letter says Activision
marketeers have reneged on the original plan to give Infocom creative
control of their games and are using it as a "dumping ground" for titles they don't
wanted released under the Activision label (citing *InfoComics* as an example). It
also describes the Infocom staff as so depressed that they've initiated the "Bruce
Youth" program (Bruce Davis is the Activision President), modeled after the Hitler
Youth program in which kids turned in their parents-though the related flyer
seemed more humorous than serious. Is this the work of a bitter ex-employee, or
of someone trying to save the integrity of the text adventure (and Infocom) as we
know it from a Fate Worse Than Death? The letter arrived as we were going to
press, and we couldn't get to Activision and Infocom in time for their responses in
this issue. [Look for more in May](/library/questbusters-infocom-adds-graphics).
