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

[kmusser]

That means you're the only one that won't get eaten by grue when the power goes out.

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

And just to fill it out....I played Zork 1, 2, and 3 on the Apple IIe. :>

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

i've still got the games now...on a palm pilot!

[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.

[zombie-dog.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Even I played Zork, and I'm young.

Relatively speaking.

[just-showtune.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I played the text based ZORK on our "portable" IBM compatible Epson.

[cyberkender.livejournal.com]

Tres geek!
Hmmm...Work gave me a PPC...Perhaps I should see if I can find them for that platform. :>

[kowari.livejournal.com]

*puts hand up*
Yeah, Commodore 64 for me. And also recently - there is a flash or java version of it out there on the net for free... somewhere. Cant remember where! Like there is a free version of Hitchickers...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the trick is just getting a z-code interpretor ( http://ifarchive.org/if-archive/interpreters-infocom-zcode/ ) for the platform - if you have even a dos version of any game (like any of the "Lost Treasures" releases) tucked away somewhere, the datafile of the game is totally portable given having the interpretor for the platform.