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Zork I

Authors:Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Publisher:Infocom
Genres:Fantasy>Cave crawl
Fantasy>Zorkian
Released:1980
License:Former commercial
Review:

The first Zork to be published commercially, this game essentially consists of a large chunk of dungeon carved from the central area of the original Zork. A decent dungeon crawl, and many adventurers' first experience with IF. The Hugo port is of questionable legality, but considering that Activision made the entire Zork Trilogy available for free download a few years ago, I wouldn't be too worried.

Rating: ***

Reviewed by Carl Muckenhoupt (15 Feb 2001)

Related Links:SPAG review
Downloads:
hugozork.hex (168.12 KB)
Hugo executable (ported by John Menichelli)
hugozork.hug (345.74 KB)
Hugo source code (version: Release 1, ported by John Menichelli)
zorkvms.zip (344.89 KB)
WinPaw executable
ZorkI.inv (23.27 KB)
transcribed Invisiclues hint book
zorkI.step1 (6.23 KB)
solution
zorkI.step2 (4.41 KB)
solution
zorkI.txt (13.39 KB)
solution
sample.from.zork (6.10 KB)
sample transcript from original documentation
zork1.txt (12.05 KB)
GUE History from the original Zork I docs
Zork_Trilogy.zip (9.75 KB)
maps in GUEmap format
hints.many (16.10 KB)
hints
jgunness.zip (159.04 KB)
solution
Sols1.zip (213.57 KB)
solution
Sols2.zip (38.22 KB)
solution
Sols3.zip (172.32 KB)
solution
zork1.zip (14.72 KB)
THL hint file


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