Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams

Posted by Ernest Petti.
First posted on 30 January 1999. Last updated on 07 May 2006.
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Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams is a classic Infocom game in the style of the Zork and Enchanter series. The game takes place in the same universe and the story makes a couple of passing references to those series. No prior knowledge of the Zork or Enchanter series is required or even helpful to succeed in this game. Wishbringer is considered by its fans as a short introduction to the…

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The author has given rather so-so ratings to Wishbringer, even though he seems a bit kinder to the game in his prose.  Despite the relative ease of the puzzles, which was deliberate (Infocom had asked Brian Moriarty to write a game for beginners), I consider Wishbringer one of Infocom’s best games with a very unique sweetness and charm.  The puzzles may be simple but they are still fun, even to players highly experienced in Interactive Fiction, and they are all all perfectly integrated with the strange and magical world in which the game is set.  This is not a game in the Zork series, yet Moriarty even managed to work in a small and very clever tie to Zork I.  And frankly, despite its humor and relative simplicity, it earns a place in one of the great mythic genres that will never die, the battle between Good and Evil, with a subtle secondary theme about our need for companionship.  Five stars, say I!

United States By Harry Kaplan • On 10 June 2008 • From Brooklyn, NY, USA

I have been searching all day for Wishbringer and I couldn’t believe my luck when I found it! I loved it on the Commodore-my first intro to computers. Thank you so much. I now have to figure out to save it. Is there a CD I can order of Wishbringer text game?
Thanks again,
Madeline Shortell

By Madeline Shortell • On 07 September 2002 • From Derby, CT

I have a copy of Wishbringer, DOS 2.0 or higher on 5 1/4” floopy disk.
Copyright @ 1985, 1988 with PD-IZOG-04 on label. An all text version of the game which we have never been able to solve.
Is there a updated version, Windows 98, with move that a text transcript?

This review dated 6/20/99 is the same story by Brian Moriaty only eleven years later.
What would be the differences in the three versions?

Your review is very good and clear, but with a difficulty or 2 I must be a very poor game player.

By Jerry Grant • On 10 June 2000 • From Arlington, Texas U.S.A.