Zork

Zork was one of the first adventure games, after ADVENT.

The first version of Zork was written 1977-1979 on a PDP-10 computer by Tim
Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling in a programming
language called MDL. All the programmers came from the Dynamic Modelling
Group at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.

Originally "Zork" was a name that any unfinished program around MIT got.
When the game was finished the implementors called it Dungeon, but people
went on calling it Zork, so the name stuck.

The company Personal Software produced a version of Zork I (about the first
third of the original Zork) for the Apple II and TRS-80 personal computers
in 1980. They managed to fit this much capability into the small personal
computer systems of the time, and gain portability between them, by using a
specialized system called the Z-machine. They had plans to release Zork II
as well, but never got that far.

Finally Infocom, a company started by the above and others to produce
adventure games brought out versions of Zork for most popular computers.

The Zork series of games introduced grues and zorkmids.

Zork and its relatives fit into a category known as interactive fiction.
Zork, like the other Infocom games, was distinguised in its genre as an
especially rich text adventure, both in terms of the quality of the
storytelling, as well as the sophistication (at the time) of its text
parser. The parser understood full-sentence commands ("Attack the grue with
the egg") that went well beyond the simple verb-noun ("Attack grue")
commands that were the standard fare of the day.

The original Zork trilogy:

   * Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
   * Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
   * Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)

The Enchanter Trilogy also took place in the Zork universe and is considered
to be part of the Zork series:

   * Enchanter (1983)
   * Sorcerer (1985)
   * Spellbreaker (1985)

Later Infocom additions to the series:

   * Beyond Zork (1987)
   * Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988, with graphics)

Even later Activision additions to the series:

   * Return to Zork (1993, with graphics)
   * Zork: Nemesis (with graphics)
   * Zork: Grand Inquisitor (with graphics)
   * Zork: The Undiscovered Underground

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