The Witness (1983 video game)

The Witness
Developer(s)Infocom
Publisher(s)Infocom
Designer(s)Stu Galley[1]
EngineZ-machine
Platform(s)Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, TRS-80, TI-99/4A, Mac
ReleaseRelease 13: May 24, 1983

Release 18: September 10, 1983
Release 20: November 19, 1983
Release 21: December 8, 1983

Release 22: September 24, 1984
Genre(s)Adventure, Interactive fiction
Mode(s)Single-player

The Witness is an interactive fiction video game published by Infocom in 1983. Like Infocom's earlier title Deadline, it is a murder mystery. The Witness was written in the ZIL language for the Z-machine, which allowed it to be released simultaneously on many systems. It is Infocom's seventh game.

  1. ^ Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".