Infidel is an interactive fiction video game published by Infocom in 1983. It was written and designed by Michael Berlyn and Patricia Fogleman, and was the first in the "Tales of Adventure" line. It was released for the Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, IBM PC (as a self-booting disk), TRS-80, and TI-99/4A. Ports were later published for Macintosh, Atari ST, and Amiga. Infidel is Infocom's tenth game. Plot Infocom intended Infidel to be the first of a "Tales of Adventure" series. The player's character is a self-styled adventurer and fortune hunter. The character appears to have a bitter personality as he thinks that his boss Craige should treat him as a partner instead of an assistant. Progressing in the storyline a call comes while Craige is out checking some equipment. The call is from a woman called Rose Ellington she wants to sponsor an expedition to discover the pyramid that her archaeologist father was not able to. The player's character egoistically and hungry for attention tells the woman he is more than capable of taking the job and decides not to inform Craige about the call. In 1916, Dr. Ellington came into possession of a 5000-year-old fragment of pottery covered with hieroglyphics. After years of research, Dr. Ellington managed to decipher a portion of the text, indicating the general location of a pyramid that was not known of. The deciphered text described a queen with great riches. Later, when Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut, Rose Ellington, the daughter of the now-late Dr. Ellington, thought that someone had found the pyramid and stowed the papers and artifacts away. Rose found them in the early 1980s after her mother's death and did some preliminary fact-checking. She found out that the pyramid indicated by her father's findings was nowhere near the tomb of King Tut, and that the area Dr. Ellington was investigating had no discovered pyramids. Rose, not being financially proficient, set the expedition to be a modest one. This was the perfect opportunity for an opportunistic soldier-of-fortune to make a name for himself. However, the “Navigation Box”, a crude forerunner of a Global Positioning System, was irreparably damaged. A new one was ordered, but the delivery was delayed and the resources and the will of the local diggers was dwindling. The adventurer, desperate to control the situation, commanded the workers to dig aimlessly and