This is the forbear of the Zork trilogy, written at MIT before Infocom was formed. The first game to feature a full-sentence parser, albeit a crude one by today's standards. Very derivative of Adventure, from the maze of twisty little passages to the orange smoke that accompanies ressurrection. Basically, a treasure hunt in a cave. Two mazes (counting the coal mine), a little randomized combat, and a nonsense puzzle or two. Much historical interest, however. Nearly everything in this game can be found in the Zork trilogy, although some crucial details are different. Available in various stages of its development; unlike Adventure, which used a very rigid database, this game was designed to be easy to modify, and got modified a lot.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (03 Jul 2000)

Dungeon.lha (293.90 KB)

Amiga executable (version: 2.7A, ported by David Kinder)

Dungeon.lzh (179.47 KB)

Amiga executable (version: 2.5, ported by Loren J. Rittle)

dungeon.spk (191.47 KB)

Acorn Archimedes executable (version: 2.7A, ported by Julian Arnold)

dungeon.zoo (213.74 KB)

Atari ST executable (ported by Kurt Olsen)

Dungeon-Glk.sit.hqx (513.01 KB)

Macintosh executable (version: 3.2B, ported by Andrew Plotkin)

zork-27m.hqx (266.28 KB)

Macintosh executable (version: Release 2.7, ported by Anthony C. Ard)

dungeon_dosglk.zip (253.04 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 3.2B, ported by Steve Nickolas and Andrew Plotkin, additional material by Robert M. Supnik)

dungeon_winglk.zip (506.32 KB)

Windows executable (version: 3.2B, ported by Andrew Plotkin, additional material by Robert M. Supnik, requires Glk.dll)

dungn22a.zip (168.50 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 2.2A)

dungn25a.zip (152.93 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 2.5A)

dungn26b.zip (184.18 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 2.6B)

dungn27a.zip (163.37 KB)

MS-DOS executable (version: 2.7A, ported by Ian Lance Taylor)

dungn32b.zip (374.47 KB)

FORTRAN source code, MS-DOS executable (version: 32B, ported by Volker Blasius, additional material by Robert M. Supnik)

Dungeon_source.sit (167.38 KB)

C source code (in MacBinary format)

dungeon-2.5.6.tar.gz (442.31 KB)

FORTRAN source code (version: 2.5A)

dungeon-3.2A.tar.Z (296.29 KB)

FORTRAN source code (version: 3.2A, ported by Robert M. Supnik)

dungeon-3.2B.patch (3.19 KB)

FORTRAN source code (version: 3.2B, patch to 3.2A source code)

dungeon-3.2B.unidiff (4.32 KB)

FORTRAN source code (version: 3.2B, ported by David Bristow, patch to 3.2A source code, for Larry Wall's)

dungeon-glk.tar.Z (317.09 KB)

C source code (version: 3.2B, ported by Andrew Plotkin, uses GLK library)

dungn26b-src.zip (157.59 KB)

FORTRAN source code (version: 2.6B, ported by Kevin Black)

dungn27s.zip (254.99 KB)

C source code (version: 2.7A)

tads_dungeon.zip (312.58 KB)

TADS executable (version: Release 0.3, ported by Darin Johnson, game file and source code)

zorkvms.zip (344.89 KB)

VMS executable (version: 14 Aug 2001), FORTRAN source code

zdungeon.z5 (184.50 KB)

Z-code 5 executable (version: Release 13, ported to Inform by Ethan Dicks)

Dungeon.zip (8.00 KB)

maps in GUEmap format

dung-map.zip (21.17 KB)

map in Postscript format

dungeon.ps (31.80 KB)

map in Postscript format

dungeon.sol (18.52 KB)

solution to version 3.1