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RE: My Favorite Works of Interactive Fiction

in Hive Book Club6 months ago

ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire

Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.

ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc.

Revision 88 / Serial number 840726

West of House

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.

There is a small mailbox here.

open mailbox

Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.

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Sounds like an early example of interactive fiction. Interesting.

Infocom (later bought by Activision) was a big publisher of interactive fiction games in the early days of personal computers. Zork was probably the first to put that term on the map.