In my opinion zork is one of the least impressive infocom games out there, its historical importance cannot be ignored as it was really one of the first infocom

In my opinion zork is one of the least impressive infocom games out there, its historical importance cannot be ignored as it was really one of the first infocom games produced; and text based games such as zork did a lot to help computers gain traction as an entertainment medium back in the late 70s. Many better infocom games have been written since zork and there is even a fairly active community of infocom enthusiasts on sites like IFDB (infocom database) http://ifdb.tads.org/ http://ifdb.tads.org/ if you really want to try getting into infocom games try looking at the higher rated ones on that site. My first complete playthrough and all time favorite infocom games is called Vespers and I would highly recommend it as a primer to the infocom medium.