Media Histories at MIT: Zork, an early text adventure game (2012)
A retrospective of Zork and text adventure games, as told by MIT's Nick Montfort in 2012
360p, 10:33
Quote of the day
The water swirls down the pipe, its angle of descent increasing until it tumbles over a precipice. You are buffeted backand forth, flipping over, headfirst one second, feetfirst the next. At last, dizzy and confused, you are dashed against the rocks at the bottom of the cistern.
-- Spellbreaker
Factoid of the day
Although you can say "Hello Sailor" in each of the early Zork games and it is twice referenced in Zork I, it only has any effect in Zork III.
Link of the day
Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
A huge and inspired collection of scans and photos of classic and modern computer adventure games.
If you have an Infocom, interactive fiction, or adventure game link you'd like to see here, let me know.
Oct 1985
