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If you’re a fan of the genre, Zork I is worth playing through (with hints if necessary) precisely because it’s an example (the example?) of the early exploratio
by raldi 2y ago
If you’re a fan of the genre, Zork I is worth playing through (with hints if necessary) precisely because it’s an example (the example?) of the early explorations of the art — back when it was about, “Hmm, what we should make the game do if someone tries to break the mirror?” and then implementing a response.
It wasn’t so much about finishing the game, it was about exploring the playground.
- ghaff 2y agoI never made it through--but then I've mostly always been more of a fan of the idea of gaming than the work of actually playing a game until the end. I did finish a few of the Infocom games generally with the help of a few (literal pre-Web) phone calls to the developer of some of those games who was a friend of mine from school. (There's even a very inside joke related to me in Planetfall. Don't ask because I won't tell.:-))
- 7thaccount 2y agoNow that is a heck of a story :) Don't stand in the way of history. Tell us!
- ghaff 2y agoBasically, a minor character has a name that is, to someone in the know, obviously a derivative of a playful expression that the author would regularly use on me in school. I don't actually remember the character--though, for some reason I'm thinking it was an ambassador.