Zork I

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Adventure Under­ground

Zork I
Author(s)	Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Publisher(s)	Personal Software, Infocom, Activision
Release date(s)	Dec-1980
Authoring system	ZIL
Platform(s)	Z-code
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Commercial
Multimedia
Color	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruelty to be determined

Contents 1 How It Begins 2 Notable Features 3 Trivia and Comments 4 Versions 4.1 Personal Software release 4.2 Infocom releases 4.3 Hugo port 4.4 Availability 5 Links 5.1 Spoilers

How It Begins

You are an adventurer, seeking treasure and the Great Underground Empire. You begin west of the white house. As you explore the land around the house and the caves below it, you discover more than just treasure...

Notable Features

Trivia and Comments

• Zork I inspired the parody Pork 1: The Great Underground Sewer System (Anonymous; 1998; AGT).

Versions

Personal Software release

Infocom releases

• Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (authors: Marc Blank and Dave Lebling; publisher: Infocom; YEAR TBD; Z-code).
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Hugo port

• Hugo Zork: The Great Underground Empire (porter: John Menichelli; 1997; Hugo).
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Availability

• Zork I is included on both The Lost Treasures of Infocom Volume I and the Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom CD-ROMs.
• In 2001, the Zork trilogy was briefly available for free download from the Activision website as part of their promotion for Zork: Grand Inquisitor. Activision retains the copyright to Zork I, and any other sites that offer the game for free download are very likely doing so illegally.

Links

• Zork I at Wikipedia.

Spoilers

• Zork I Speedrun - 7min46sec - YouTube video where "divadnotyad" plays Zork I really quickly.

Here are links to collections of solutions. Each collection contains either hints or a solution for Zork I:

• Download hints.many ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - hints by Anonymous.
• Download jgunness.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - solutions by Jacob Gunness.
• Download Sols1.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.
• Download Sols2.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.
• Download Sols3.zip ( ftp, random) from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.

Zork trilogy by Infocom
Zork I (1980)	Zork II (1981)	Zork III (1982)