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Ballyhoo

1985 video game
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Ballyhoo

Summary

Ballyhoo is a video game[1]. Ballyhoo ranks in the top 6% of video_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ballyhoo's instance of is recorded as video game[3].
  • Ballyhoo was published by Infocom[4].
  • Ballyhoo's genre is interactive fiction[5].
  • Ballyhoo's developer is recorded as Infocom[6].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as DOS[7].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Commodore Amiga[8].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Commodore 64[9].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Atari ST[10].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Amstrad CPC[11].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Atari 8-bit family[12].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as TRS-80 Model I[13].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Texas Instruments TI-99/4A[14].
  • Ballyhoo's platform is recorded as Classic Mac OS[15].
  • Ballyhoo's game mode is recorded as single-player video game[16].
  • Ballyhoo's software engine is recorded as Z-machine[17].
  • Ballyhoo was distributed by floppy disk[18].
  • Ballyhoo's input device is recorded as computer keyboard[19].
  • Ballyhoo's country of origin is recorded as United States[20].
  • Ballyhoo was released on December 15, 1985[21].
  • Ballyhoo's different from is recorded as Ballyhoo[22].
  • Ballyhoo's different from is recorded as Ballyhoo[23].

Body

Authorship and Creation

Ballyhoo was published by Infocom[4].

Publication

Ballyhoo was released on December 15, 1985[21]. Ballyhoo's genre is interactive fiction[5]. Ballyhoo was distributed by floppy disk[18].

Why It Matters

Ballyhoo ranks in the top 6% of video_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (54 views/month).[2] Ballyhoo has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24]

Related Entities

Classic Mac OS computer keyboard DOS floppy disk Infocom Texas Instruments TI-99/4A United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Adventure Gamers. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 27d ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Country of origin → United States
    Distribution format → floppy disk
    Publisher → Infocom
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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