Speaking as someone who's spent a lot of time reading the Zork source code and the Z-machine spec that allowed it to be ported to an huge variety of ancient pla

Speaking as someone who's spent a lot of time reading the Zork source code and the Z-machine spec that allowed it to be ported to an huge variety of ancient platforms (http://gunkies.org/wiki/Zork http://gunkies.org/wiki/Zork), I have to say, your dismissive attitude is wildly inaccurate. Both the game and its VM platform were incredibly intricate works of genius.