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Anyone remember the old text-based computer game called "Zork"?

It is dark. You are liable to be eaten by a grue!

My two miniature schnauzers are firmly convinced that grues exist, and they're gonna let me know (loudly) if they ever see one!

a clearing in the forest.
man have games come a long way

LOL! Yup.

Some of us cling to nostalgia (cause it "only seemslike yesterday...")

http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

And, of course, XYZZY

looks loke we know who the late 30's early 40 group is

I remember a TV show about some guy named MORK...

cheezit wrote:looks loke we know who the late 30's early 40 group is

Not sure what you're referring to, but I'm a bit older than that.
The original game, "The Colossal Cave" was developed in 1975=1976, and became Zork from 1977-1979.
Wikipedia has entries for both games.

I remember Oregon Trail on an Apple.

"You have died of dysentery."

cheezit wrote:looks loke we know who the late 30's early 40 group is

If only I could roll the clockback 20 years...

SQLGeek wrote:I remember Oregon Trail on an Apple.

"You have died of dysentery."

Yeah, I did that a lot.

I remember ZORK and a host of other infocom games. I still prefer logic games to the "shoot-em-up" type games...

The first game I have a memory of playing was "Clydes Adventure" on DOS.

Reserve161 wrote:I remember ZORK and a host of other infocom games. I still prefer logic games to the "shoot-em-up" type games...

Then you might enjoy this!

If you have call of duty: Black Ops ZORK is programmed into the game and you can play it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bLBy7gQPI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Zork 1 solved in 8 minutes. hehe. Very nostalgic to slow it down and read.