Editing Infocom (section)

=== Expansion ===
Lebling and Blank each authored several more games, and additional game writers (or "Implementers") were hired, notably including [[Steve Meretzky]].<ref name="zzap64.co.uk">{{cite web |title=Four Minds Forever Voyaging (Part I) |url=http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzap13/four_minds01.html}}</ref> Other popular and inventive titles included a number of sequels and spinoff games in the ''Zork'' series, ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (video game)|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' by [[Douglas Adams]], and ''[[A Mind Forever Voyaging]]''.<ref name="zzap64.co.uk" />

In its first few years of operation, text adventures proved to be a huge revenue stream for the company. Whereas most computer games of the era would achieve initial success and then suffer a significant drop-off in sales, Infocom titles continued to sell for years and years. Employee [[Tim Anderson (programmer)|Tim Anderson]] said of their situation, "It was phenomenal – we had a basement that just printed money."<ref name=briceno2000/> By 1983 Infocom was perhaps the dominant computer-game company; for example, all ten of its games were on the ''Softsel'' top 40 list of best-selling computer games for the week of December 12, 1983, with ''Zork'' in first place and two others in the top ten.{{r|maher20130320}} In late 1984, management declined an offer by publisher [[Simon & Schuster]] to acquire Infocom for $28&nbsp;million, far more than the board of directors's valuation of $10–12&nbsp;million.<ref name="maher20131023">{{cite web |url=http://www.filfre.net/2013/10/masters-of-the-game/ |title=Masters of the Game |work=The Digital Antiquarian |date=October 23, 2013 |access-date=July 11, 2014 |author=Maher, Jimmy}}</ref> In 1993, ''Computer Gaming World'' described this era as the "Cambridge [[Camelot]], where the [[Great Underground Empire]] was formed".<ref name="cgw199307">{{cite news |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1993&pub=2&id=108 |title=The 7th International Computer Game Developers Conference |magazine=Computer Gaming World |date=July 1993 |access-date=July 12, 2014 |page=34}}</ref>