Infinite Inferno was developed by Pontus Henningsohn and Staffan Hugemark, who collaborated on the storyline. They signed a contract with Swedish mail-order company Computer Boss International (C.B.I.) in Eskilstuna. C.B.I. passed the game to the UK company Arcade Systems Ltd for publication.
Thanks to Martin/Stadium64, we learn that due to “miscellaneous issues”, the game was never officially released. C.B.I. was a major Swedish mail-order game distributor in the 1980s and regularly advertised in Datormagazinet.
Infinite Inferno was listed for sale at 269 SEK in Datormagazinet issues #4/1986, #1/1987, and #2/1987, but subsequently disappeared, suggesting there may have been a very limited release or possibly none at all.
It remains unclear if Infinite Inferno was ever sold beyond test marketing or if copies exist outside of collector circles. The GB64 database lists the year as 1985, but there may be later editions credited to C.B.I yet to discover. If you have a copy by C.B.I, please do get in touch!
Contributions: Gamebase64, Martin/Stadium64
I too have that one, since 1985 or 1986. It is a copied diskette not an original one, and it still works. At that time my father had a subscription with a cracking group based in Milan, Italy, and they supplied tons of stuff monthly. I loved graphic adventure games and found this one to be very mysterious and intriguing (starting with the title). Unfortunately I never went very far, I waited for hints to show up in the gaming press but nothing ever materialized.
Ah that’s interesting! Thanks for sharing Gab72! So it seems that it just got leaked to the cracking scene, and perhaps that is why it may never have been sold after that. Similar to what happened to Plotting by Ocean.
I do have the game on a floppy disk, however I don’t think I will be able to contribute in any way, since it probably is the same as the downloadable .zip. But I live near Milan so that’s weird. Will ask the “history” of the floppy disk (on A side “The Dallas Quest”, on B side “Infinite Inferno”) to my father, who most likely bought it at the time, but it’s unlikely he’ll have any recollection of the details. The label is written with a pen so it’s unlikely it was purchased as “officially labeled”…
Thanks very much for that, and really appreciated. It would be great to get to the bottom of where the game came from.