I worked at a software store in the mid 80s so it was easy to grab the Zork series. I played through all of them and loved them and a lot of the other Infocom games (Infidel, Enchanter, Hitchhiker's Guide, etc.) I don't think that Infocom created Zork, though. Didn't they just license most of the old mainframe game called "Adventure" for the first one?
no they invented Zork and started the company
Three of the original
Zork programmers joined with others to found
Infocom in 1979. That company adapted the PDP-10
Zork into
Zork I-III, a trilogy of games for most popular small computers of the era, including the
Apple II, the
Commodore 64, the
Commodore Plus/4, the
Atari 8-bit family, the
TRS-80,
CP/M systems, and the
IBM PC.
Zork I was published on 5¼" and 8"
floppy disks. Joel Berez and Marc Blank developed a specialized
virtual machine to run
Zork I, called the
Z-machine. The first "Z-machine Interpreter Program"
ZIP for a small computer was written by Scott Cutler for the TRS-80. The trilogy was written in
ZIL, which stands for "Zork Implementation Language", a language similar to
LISP.
Personal Software published what would become the first part of the trilogy under the name
Zork when it was first released in 1980, but Infocom later handled the distribution of that game and their subsequent games. Part of the reason for splitting Zork into three different games was that, unlike the PDP systems the original ran on, microcomputers did not have enough memory and disk storage to handle the entirety of the original game. In the process, more content was added to Zork to make each game stand on its own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
and the first Zork game was in
COD black ops 1
