Although criticized by old adventure game fans who claimed the removal of the parser interface "dumbed down" the game, this new interface prevailed and became the new standard for adventure games.
It was the first Sierra game to sell more than 500,000 copies and it won several awards.
And so quality gaming (IMO) lost out to survival of the fittest.
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-Jeff
Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings; they did it by killing all those who opposed them.