Every week at our son’s preschool they have a show and tell for each letter of the alphabet. Being the gamer geeks we are, a few of those weeks we sent him to school with a game box. This week was the letter Z so he brought in the CD cover for Zork. Needless to say it stood out from all of the zebras. So looking over our game collection here’s some other possibilities…what are yours?
Loot Ninja writes: "In this game where all you are doing is clicking on buttons, not even graphics, and where the player controls only move forward or back to base I don't feel it delivers anything legendary or anything truly Zork-ish. It's definitely fallen short of my expectations but strangely enough I keep clicking on that button. I don't know if it's the sad state of affairs I hope gets better, or the pathetic life I can lead but I keep on playing. It could be the improvements slowly being made and the fact that the game is made to be played for only 15 to 30 minutes a day and does a great job at wasting time. If that's what you are looking for, something remotely Zork to waste time with then by all means, sign up. Oh yeah I have yet to encounter any Grues… weak".
Like a train wreck. You can't look away.
This game didn't do much to uphold the great Zork legend. I feel like a whole generation of gamers who didn't know what Zork was will feel like it's nothing but a bunch of crap their crazy old uncle talks about.
Jolt Online Gaming has announced the release of Legends of Zork, a casual browser based MMO return to the world of Infocom's classic text adventure series. The game puts players in the role of an unemployed salesman seeking to find some loot in the remnants of the Great Underground Empire.
In their inaugural email update, Legends of Zork developers laid down the welcome mat for beta testers, and offered up some additional (if vague) game details: "This is the inaugural Legends of Zork update email and we'll be keeping it pretty brief as we're in the very final stages of finishing the game. In fact that's why we're writing. We need to increase our beta group to make sure we get the game balancing right."
Fun article.
I do.
But not for any one platform, sadly. Except maybe PC, if I dig through an old box of CDs if I still have any.
I'm pretty close w/ PS3, counting digital PSN, PS3, PS2 and PS1 games.
Dammit. Only missing Y in my Steam library.
Z= zool 2. atari jaguar baby lol.
Actraiser
Bubsy
Chrono Trigger
Donkey Kong
Earthbound
Final Fantasy
Gradius
Harvest Moon
Illusion of Gaia
Joe & Mac
Killer Instinct
Legend of Zelda
Mega Man
Ninja Gaiden
Ogre Battle
Pilotwings
QBert
R-Type
Secret of Mana
TMNT
Ultima
Vortex
Wild Guns
X-Men
YS
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