ZORK ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE SERIES

The award is given to the gamemakers whose groundbreaking early work laid the foundations of the multi-billion-dollar videogame industry. Today, Wired can exclusively report that Marc Blank and Dave Lebling, two of the co-founders of Infocom and co-creators of Zork, will be honored with the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Pioneer Award at the DICE Summit in February. At the forefront of the medium were the designers of Infocom, which created and published text games like Zork, Starcross and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy that delighted players with clever writing and had them absolutely tearing their hair out with difficult puzzles. Whether you prefer to call them 'text adventures' or 'interactive fiction,' games played with nothing but writing and verbal commands were a significant part of the early days of interactive entertainment. Its name alternated between both Zork and Dungeon, but the name Zork stuck in the end. Zork was a text adventure game originally developed for the PDP 10 at MIT in 1977. The original Zork Trilogy The original three Zork games incorporated pieces of the original PDP 10 Zork. The player's quest is to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork. The player begins as an 'adventurer' standing near a white house in a nice forest, but soon descends into the Great Underground Empire, where most of the game takes place. Its name alternated between both Zork and Dungeon, but the name Zork stuck in the end. Zork: The Great Underground Empire is a classic text adventure game.

ZORK ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE SERIES

In the days before graphics, computer games had to entice players with nothing more than a well-turned phrase. The Zork series consists of eleven commercial computer games, released between 19 by Infocom, and later, Activision, as well as various other spin-offs and works of fiction. Zork was a text adventure game originally developed for the PDP 10 at MIT in 1977.

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