A sampling of feelies from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Infocom used the term feelie to refer to the extra content included with the boxed versions of their interactive fiction computer games. Infocom was a Software company, based in Cambridge Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of Interactive fiction. A personal computer Game (also known as a computer game or simply PC game) is a Video game played on a Personal computer, rather Feelies differed from game to game and were of the same theme as the game they came packaged with. For example, Wishbringer, a fantasy game with magic, came with a "Magick glowing stone. Wishbringer The Magick Stone of Dreams is an Interactive fiction Computer game written by Brian Moriarty and published by Infocom Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Magic, sometimes known as sorcery, is a Conceptual system that asserts human ability to control the natural world (including events objects people and " These extra objects and documents sometimes served as a form of copy prevention, as several games were impossible to solve without information found in their feelies. Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention, or copy restriction, is a technology for preventing the unauthorised reproduction

Some of Infocom's games and their feelies are listed below:

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • A button with "Don't Panic!" printed in large, friendly letters
  • Pocket Fluff
  • Order for destruction of Arthur Dent's house
  • Order for destruction of Earth
  • Microscopic Space Fleet (an empty plastic bag)
  • "Peril Sensitive Sunglasses" ("glasses" made of opaque black cardboard)
  • The game also indicates that it comes with "no tea," a key joke and puzzle in the game. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an Interactive fiction Computer game based on the seminal comic Science fiction series of the
• Planetfall
  • A Stellar Patrol "Special Assignment Task Force" ID card (about the size and shape of a credit card)
  • 3 interstellar postcards
  • A Stellar Patrol recruiting manual, "Today's Stellar Patrol"
  • Letters (presumedly to home)
• Zork I
  • The Great Underground Empire: A History
  • Map of the Underground Empire
  • A zorkmid (highly sought after by collectors, as it was only included with the 1987 Zork Trilogy collection)

The word feelie has also been applied in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, as a form of motion picture that provides the sensation of touch in addition to sight and sound. Planetfall is a Science fiction Interactive fiction Computer game written by Steve Meretzky, and the eighth title published A credit card is part of a system of Payments named after the small Plastic card issued to users of the system A postcard or post card is a rectangular piece of thick Paper or thin cardboard intended for writing and mailing without an Envelope and Zork was one of the first Interactive fiction Computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 &ndash 22 November 1963 was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Brave New World is a 1932 Novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A The word suggests a logical extension to the moving picture ("movie") and the talking picture ("talkie"), and suggests an entertainment form with an incredible level of sensation but with minimal substance.

External links

• The Infocom Gallery with images of most feelies from the Infocom games
• An alternate location for The Infocom Gallery
• The Zorkmid Project, an effort to mint new zorkmids
• Feelies.org, a company who distribute feelies for shareware and freeware interactive fiction.
• Computer Chronicles on feelies for LGoP