Starcross

But the production was new to the company, expensive, and at the time experimental.

Zork 3, released after Deadline, didn't have any special extras, and they were used sparingly in the last title of '82, Starcross.

Starcross by David Lebling was Infocom's first sci-fi game.

The idea was that you, a down-on-your-luck space miner, found, boarded, and explored an alien ship from beyond the stars full of mechanisms and creatures.

And the ship was also a test of some sort, so solving its puzzles, you'd prove something to its creators and benefit greatly.

Quite a few puzzles involved a pair of discs that teleported stuff standing on them between one another.

And frustratingly, a part of the adventure relied on the random movements of a cleaning mouse robot.

The large world of Starcross consumed much of the space on the disk, so even the creatures you could talk to had only a few lines and did not respond to attempts at conversation.