Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

a.k.a. DUNGEN / Dungeon

published by Infocom / Tabdy / Personal Software in 1980, developed by MIT Dynamic Modelling Group / Infocom, running on TRS-80
type: adventure
genre: Fantasy, Interactive fiction
series: Zork, Zork Universe
perspective: other
player options: single player
languages: eng

Description

Humourous creation by members of MIT's Dynamic Modelling Group, marketing by Infocom under the name Zork. It is the first game of the Zork trilogy.
This game is not Dungeon.

Difficulty Level: | Junior | Introductory |>>STANDARD<<| Advanced | Expert |

Enter the Great Underground Empire to collect the Nineteen Treasures of Zork in this text-adventure (interactive fiction) without graphics.

# 2006

Technical specs

display: text

Editor note

7,500 copies were sold in the first nine months.

# 2021-09-16 07:47:22

Authors / Staff

coding

Bruce Daniels (programmer)
Dave Lebling (programmer)
Marc Blank (programmer)
Tim Anderson (programmer)

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AndreaD
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