are likely to find anywhere." It praised Floyd as "the most imaginative and cleverly written part of the entire game, Floyd, besides being hysterically funny through most of the adventure, evokes in the player of Planetfall authentic feelings of affection and attachment." Steve Meretzky stated that Floyd "was the result of research into how an artificially intelligent mind might work". The Boston Globe in 1984 described the robot as "the most popular Infocom character". Planetfall has been described as "still lovingly remembered", and parts have been described as "transcendent", including Floyd's death. Meretzky claims that "numerous players" have told him that they cried over the death of Floyd. Softline wrote, "You don't feel like this very often. Maybe after you've read Charlotte's Web. Maybe when they shot Bambi's mother. Maybe when Raskolnikov got religion in the Siberian slave labor camp. But this scene is from a computer game. A game!" A game developers round table on GEnie concluded that Floyd's death was a sad moment that could make someone cry. Floyd's death has been described as directly evoking the player's emotions because the story and gameplay are aligned. The death of Floyd has been described as changing the game to an "evocative theatrical experience" after which "the player feels lonely and bereaved." The memory of Floyd's death remains with players for years and is remembered as a direct experience. Floyd's death "convey[ed] a sense of wonder at the unexpected and touching quality of the gesture." The scene has been described as a minor milestone toward computer games as an expressive narrative art. Game designer Raph Koster feels that Floyd's death is "cheating" because it occurs in a cut scene. Reviews The V.I.P. of Gaming Magazine #3 (April/May, 1986) Legacy In February 1992, a remake of was developed and published by Japanese software development company SystemSoft for the NEC PC-9801, over eight-and-a-half years after the original Planetfall. There are differences in this enhanced remake: the game recognizes verb commands typed in kana (Japanese syllable system) or Latin alphabet. For convenience, some of the most common verb commands (Look, Take, etc.) can be accessed by pressing a corresponding button, but the player still has to type the name of an object. This remake also helps the player to interact with the environment by displaying a list of objects after the player has typed a command. Also, unlike the original, the remake contains