Infocom

Infocom
Industry	Video games
Founded	June 22, 1979
Founders	Tim Anderson; Joel Berez; Marc Blank; Mike Broos; Scott Cutler; Stu Galley; Dave Lebling; J. C. R. Licklider; Chris Reeve; Al Vezza;
Defunct	Closed on May 5, 1989
Fate	Merged into Activision on 13 June 1986
Headquarters	Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Key people	Joel Berez (president, CEO)
Products	Zork; Deadline; Planetfall; The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; A Mind Forever Voyaging; Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Parent	Activision

Infocom was an American software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that produced numerous works of interactive fiction. They also produced a business application, a relational database called Cornerstone.^[3]

Infocom was founded on June 22, 1979, by staff and students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and lasted as an independent company until 1986, when it was bought by Activision. Activision shut down the Infocom division in 1989, although they released some titles in the 1990s under the Infocom Zork brand. Activision abandoned the Infocom trademark in 2002.

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