The first (and very successful) game "Zork" was created in 1977, 2 years before the creators founded the company "Infocom", let alone released the game (which finally occurred in 1980).
Other popular (and innovative) titles included the rest of the "Zork" series, 1984's "The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy", and 1985's "A Mind Forever Voyaging".
In 1986, Infocom merged with Activision?, another great in the computer gaming industry.
Many Infocom titles remain available throughout the Internet community (legally in the case of the Zork trilogy, but illegally in most other cases). They are available as Z-machine story files, which require a Z-code interpreter (a Z-machine emulator) to play. These interpreters have been written for various platforms, ranging from older computers to the IBM PC, Macintosh and even Java, and can also be used to play most of the modern games written in the [Inform programming language]?.
An excellent site detailing a timeline of Infocom's founding, releases and eventual dissolution, can be found at http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/Articles/timeline.html.
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