April 07, 2008
When I was a kid, I remember going to my aunt’s house to play Zork on her Commodore 64. I could play for hours and never tire. Zork is a text-only RPG that was published by Infocom in 1980.
It has one of the most famous openings in video game history:
Zork was the first game in a trilogy and while I happened to play it on a Commodore 64, it was released on a wide range of computer systems.
I started to think about Zork yesterday, so I thought I’d see if there was anywhere online to play it. Lo and behold, there is! You can also download the trilogy here.
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April 8th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Thank you very much for providing me with yet another way to waste the precious remaining hours of my life!
April 8th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Ha! I was wondering when you would appear.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
yeah, great game. Got the imagination going w/o any graphics to look at. Way back in 1988, I used to play a Mac game called ‘Shuffle Puck’ on an Apple II. Have you ever come across that? it was like air hockey - you vs. some sort of creature on the other side.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Missed that one…maybe because I was playing Carmen Sandiego or Oregon Trail. Anyway, found some neat screenshots for you here: http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/macintosh/shufflepuck.html
Also, you can play an updated flash version here:
http://www.papertower.com/archive/games/shufflepuck-party/
April 9th, 2008 at 2:22 am
that’s the game! thanks for the links!