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Zork!

Okay, I admit that most here are probably not as old or as nerdy as I am. But, I just saw that Gog has both Return to Zork and Zork: Nemesis. As soon as I saw them I had to get them. I grew up playing the Zork text adventures and I remember one Christmas when my dad got me Return to Zork and I was enraptured away by the graphics and FMV. (Okay, so I have downloaded the games and they aren't quite as stunning as I recall.) Still, I am going to have a great time taking a trip down memory lane...as soon as I can find time to dive into them.
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I'm eagerly awaiting for them to release Grand Inquisitor.
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Me too. Then my collection will be complete. (Unless someone decides to make the last two episodes of the triology, but at this point, I think that is exceedingly unlikely.)
I have the first one, but it's in text so I'm having a hard time playing it. I wish I could play the future games, but that would be going out of order.
Well I don't think there's anything mandating that you play them in order. (In fact Zork: Zero involves a time period before Zork 1.) However, there are some references in the later games to the earlier ones, so it's probably a bit more enjoyable to play the earlier games first.
dcat151 wrote:Okay, I admit that most here are probably not as old or as nerdy as I am.
Not so fast, you young whippersnapper! I'm old and nerdy enough (and JTOG too, I might add) that I remember the original Adventure game (also known as Colossal Cave), precursor to Zork. A text only game with two word commands, a cave exploration game, that ran on a DEC PDP 11 midrange computer, back in the 1980's. I was captivated and enthralled for weeks!

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike
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Oh I remember Adventure. I never got as into it as I did Zork, but I have played it several times. What can I say, I had a very exciting childhood of text adventure games. :D
I played the games on a C64. My parents had decided to go to law school and got a C64 because it could run a word processing program. So, it must have been in 1986. I think my dad picked up Adventure and the first Zork trilogy. I played them and was captivated.

Oddly enough, my main memory of the C64's word processor was that it couldn't make the section symbol. So, my parents had to type an o and then go back with a pen and turn it into a section symbol. I remember them reading their papers very carefully for stray o's.
The 'ø' (capital: 'Ø') is the 28th letter in the norwegian alphabet. It is preceded by the letter 'æ' ('Æ') and is followed by the 'å' ('Å').

-Fred
Pirates, vampires, zombies, ninjas, ghouls, aliens, goblins, monsters, robots, sorcerers, undead, werewolves, demons, mutated dinosaur-cyborgs and those pesky phone salesmen! The shotgun is a one-size-fits-all solution!
Oki i think im a bit to youngh to have played zork, but hav seen in on countless freeware sites and so on, whats it really about?
It is an adventure game where you explore a dungeon and (in the first Zork) attempt to collect 20 treasures. The game is entirely text-based so it's sort of like reading a choose your own adventure story.
Let me add that Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III were text-based. Beyond Zork was almost entirely text-based, but had limited map graphics. Zork Zero had limited graphics. Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Zork: Grand Inquisitor were FMV.
I didn't know there was a Zork Zero. Does it give anything away about the other games?