Subj : Zork
To   : JIMMY ANDERSON
From : jack phlash
Date : Sat Mar 07 2020 01:54 pm

on 27 Feb 2020, JIMMY ANDERSON said...
 
 JA> I played around with a LOT of text adventures back in the day, but I
 JA> don't think I ever did more than 'look at' Zork, and never touched
 JA> 2 or 3...

I loved Zork but never played them until the 90s when Return to Zork was
building up hype. I was confounded by how to progress in the first part for
literally years, as I don't recall it ever explicitly telling you it is of the
old Adventure inspired treasure hunt variety, so I was approaching it more
like a Sierra or Lucasarts adventure game and at some point the breadcrumbs
kind of just... end. Once I finally figured that out I beat it quickly, and
then hunkered down and beat 2 and 3 in very short order. I tried but could
never get into any of the others (Beyond Zork and Zork Zero, mainly) though I
did end up playing quite a few of the other Infocom text adventures. Good
stuff. <3

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