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Magnetic Scrolls were the UK-based text adventure developers who were able to keep up with Infocom thanks to the success of games like The Pawn and Guild of Thieves… but even they couldn't keep up with the times. This is their fascinating story.
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FURTHER LITERATURE:
The Magnetic Scrolls Memorial: http://msmemorial.if-legends.org
The Classic Adventurer: http://www.classicadventurer.co.uk
The digital antiquarian: http://www.filfre.net
The Internet Archive’s magazine rack: https://archive.org/details/magazine_rack
0:00 Introduction
1:46 Advertisement: Wireframe Magazine
2:46 Text adventure in Great Britain: The Hobbit, Level 9, The Quill
9:15 The Origin of Magnetic Scrolls, The Farmer
20:23 The success of The Pawn The Thieves Guild
28:07 Anita Sinclair, Press Darling Jinxter
42:15 The Decline of Interactive Fiction: Corruption Fish!
51:52 Wonderland: Magnetic Scrolls' defiant but doomed foray
1:04:23 Epilogue: Preservation of magnetic scrolls. Where are they now?
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