Gamers are used to getting post-mortems maybe a year after game launches, where developers can talk about what went right and what went wrong. It's a little unusual to present a talk some 24 years after the game's launch - but this game is iconic text adventure Zork, so we're okay with that.
This is a very clever idea. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has sent a new marketing event out. Part of which involves running a DOS prompt of the old Infocom game Zork and has a working interactive included.
neat. we were forced to use those to learn assembly. i played it on an Apple 2e
IIc for me. We user to spend hours playing games like this. Look how far we have come.
We only had a couple of Apple 2s in the school. They only showed in my third term of programming and only 3 of us were even allowed to touch them. The rest of the class weren't deemed worthy :)
I did later get a 2c, that's the first and last Apple product I ever bought.
Back to the ruins of the Flathead empire. I hope I have a lantern and some Frobozz Magic Grue Repellent. I really Miss those Infocom games. I might still have the glow in the dark "rock" from Wishbringer floating around in a box somewhere.....
Carl Williams writes, "Zork is an iconic title in the realm of computer gaming. No one really knows the date it was released but that is not stopping us from discussing it a bit. If you have never played Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, then you are seriously missing out. Just don’t be surprised when there are no graphics and it is only text. Some of the best, longest lasting games in history had no graphics. Zork being the biggest of the bunch."
VGChartz's Taneli Palola: "We ended the first part of this look at the history of video games at the threshold between two eras. The first video and arcade games had been born and the development of video games was rapidly accelerating. The foundations had been set, now someone just had to build upon them and push the industry into a new age. That someone would turn out to be a man already mentioned in the previous article, Ralph Baer."
