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 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.