Hi all,
I’m 44, from Regina, Saskatchewan and just signed up yesterday.
I dabbled with IF on the Commodore 64 in the mid-1980s but never really got into it as much as I could have. However, despite not playing IF much I managed to find out about the Lost Treasures of Infocom when it came out for the Amiga (and I bought it). Later I got Lost Treasures II and Masterpieces, and as I discovered there was an IF community online I dabbled in the newsgroups and downloaded a bunch of the newer games that the community had been producing.
I’ve played about six or seven of the Infocom games (I feel like I want to work my way through them all before playing the modern stuff). Time availability interferes with the mission but it’s still in progress.
One day I’d like to write my own IF work but we’ll see how that goes. I’ll have to find out if I have the skill to do that.
Professionally I work in the insurance industry and, part-time, am an undergraduate course lecturer at the local university’s business school.