Plundered Hearts games. "Plundered Hearts" was the last release for the Atari 8-bit family. The game has 54 locations. Tech spec lists 57 rooms. "Spine-tingling peril, romance and adventure on the high seas!" Game reviewers Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser complimented the game in their "The Role of Computers" column in "Dragon" #128 (1987), citing its "gripping prose, challenging predicaments, and scenes of derring-do". "Compute!" praised "Plundered Hearts" writing and said that the game was suitable for both men and women. "ANALOG Computing" approved of the game's "intrigue, adventure and, yes, romance" but regretted that "most of Infocom's regular audience (presumably male)
Beat Generation Mesmer, Randy Roark, Josh Smith, David Evans. The Beats had a pervasive influence on rock and roll and popular music, including the Beatles, Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison. The Beatles spelled their name with an "a" partly as a Beat Generation reference, and John Lennon was a fan of Jack Kerouac. The Beatles even put Beat writer William S. Burroughs on the cover of their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band." Ginsberg later met and became friends of members of the Beatles, and Paul McCartney played guitar on Ginsberg's album "Ballad of the Skeletons." Ginsberg was a close friend