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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

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Zork is one of the most popular text-adventures and one of the first interactive fiction games ever created. The first Zork was developed in the seventies and ported on various platform by Infocom in the early 80s. Infocom was one of the most prolific developers of text-adventures for home computers and created memorable interactive fiction games; Zork was perhaps their most popular one.

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Do you have trouble running this game on Windows? Read this guide.

Main executable game file: zork1/Zork1.bat.

DOS games can't run on Windows. You need a DOS emulator like DOSbox or D-Fend Reloaded. Follow these instructions to play DOS games on Windows 10 or later systems.

Retro gamer collector's corner:

There is also an abridged version, called Mini-Zork I, dated November 24, 1987. Mini-Zork was released free of charge as a promotion.

The original version published by Personal Software contained:

a disk
a 36 page booklet

The folio edition contained also a piece of paper with the instructions.

The re-release grey box edition contained the following feelies:

the booklet "The Great Underground Empire: A History" by Froboz Munbar
an instruction manual
a map

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Status: abandonware
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Awards won by Zork I: The Great Underground Empire:

Selected for All-TIME 100 video games TIME.com.
Selected for GameSpy's Greatest PC Games of All Time: The '80s.
Selected for 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.

Related sites

Fan sites:

The great Zork I page

Remakes:

Zork I online

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