You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue

So Leg­ends of Zork just opened out of closed beta yes­ter­day. It’s a browser-​based adven­ture game based on the old Zork series.

For you young folks who don’t know, Infocom’s Zork games were a series of text-​based adven­ture games from back in the day of DOS boxes with no graph­ics or “win­dows.” The screen would print out a descrip­tion of your envi­ron­ment, and then you would type in what you wanted to do. (Here’s a mod­ern exam­ple with a polit­i­cal slant.)

Any­way, Leg­ends of Zork is fun so far, but I feel like 30 AP/​day is so slow and I’m too cheap to buy coconuts to get more AP. You should check it out! Takes maybe 10 min­utes a day to play.

The nos­tal­gia is mak­ing me want to play through the orig­i­nal games again. Time to hit up the aban­don­ware sites!

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