🧭 THE ARCHIVES

Quote of the day

The cyclops says "Mmm Mmm. I love hot peppers! But oh, could I use a drink. Perhaps I could drink the blood of that thing." From the gleam in his eye, it could be surmised that you are "that thing".

-- Zork I

Factoid of the day

In 1992, former implementers Marc Blank and Michael Berlyn teamed up to found video game company Blank, Berlyn & Co., eventually renamed to Eidetic and then to Bend Studio after being acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment. The company initially produced games for the Apple Newton, but later pivoted to computer and console games such as Busby 3D and Syphon Filter.

*Why did 61,862 non-programmers send for a Cornerstone™ demo disk?*
Oct 1985

Invisiclues

Zork III

For Your Amusement

(after you've finished the game)

(Click or tap on any clue to reveal the clue.)

Have you ever:

...said HELLO to the man at the cliff?
...tried to throw anything from the cliff at the man?
...been eaten by the roc or swallowed by the fish in the lake?
...tried to eat the algae?
...tried repeatedly to examine the key?
...tried saying HELLO SAILOR at the Ocean before the Viking boat arrives or after it leaves?
...been at the aqueduct view, on the aqueduct, at the great door, or visiting one of the other Zorks when the earthquake took place?
...seen a robot tidying the Royal Museum (no doubt closing doors it finds open)?
...walked into the grue convention in the dark rooms?
...gone to the Museum Entrance or Jewel Room in 777?
...moved the temporizer to one of the other rooms in 776 and left it there (and then read the plaque in 948)?
...Listened to the guards or the dedicaton through the door?
...looked into the passageway by the mirror box while next to the Guardians?
...looked into the mirror or knocked on the dungeon door while invisible?
...tried to walk through the swamp or quicksand?
...burned the staff, book, tree, grue repellant can, ...