a depressed geek here...

[acroyear]

I just did an informal little survey down my hall here @ the office...

...and discovered I am the only one in this company who's ever played ZORK.

Comments

[kiltboy]

So what does it say about me that I played it on my Commodore 64?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

an Atari 800 for me here, though a copy was on the school's TRS-80 for a while, too.

eventually at college I got to play the original version (all three zorks into a single game) on the VAX/VMS system. its just not the same, especially if you'd had the trilogy maps memorized already.

[knotsteve.livejournal.com]

Me too, although I did play the original ADVENT for a couple of hours on a mainframe in the late 70s, and then several other similar knockoffs on the Temple University student mainframe in 1980 and 1981.

Never did get to play the original ZORK, though - just the Infocom versions.

XYZZY

[cozit.livejournal.com]

*snort* I haven't seen it called ADVENT (rather than ADVENTURE) for years... ok, well, other than the printout that I think I remember seeing at my parents' house last fall. It was in with the Soap Operas (As the Bit Bytes) that are our last copies of the things. One of these days Joe's got to bug B**2 to see if he still has his copies on the computer... we know he put them on and kept upgrading as necessary for at least 10 years...

I don't think I've ever played ZORK off the mainframe, although I *think* my brother had a copy for the Atari at one point.