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What does this have to do with Planetfall? I expected to land on an online version of the game, but nope.

• AStonesThrow 1y ago
  It may surprise Infocom fans [up to 10,000 of you] to learn that the word “planetfall” was coined/defined for space flight, even before the adventure game was written. Hint: it’s a logical derivative of the seafaring term “landfall”. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planetfall https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/planetfall
  • DidYaWipe 1y ago
    "Following its 1980 release, Zork I became a bestseller from 1983 through 1985. By 1986, the game had sold 380,000 copies, with 680,000 sales for the trilogy overall, comprising one-third of Infocom's two million game sales" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
• vikingerik 1y ago
  The map is from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, a game from 25 years ago, a spinoff of the Civilization series, where a colony ship from Earth lands on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. In the game's narrative, the colonists use "planetfall" to refer to the landing event and date.
  • BirAdam 1y ago
    It was, sort of, the sequel to Civ2 where one could launch a space ship to the Centauri system.