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Zork Invades the Web

by artorres | January 16, 2009 at 05:01 am

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Remember those hours of staring at a text screen exploring the world of Zork on ye olde TRS-80? No? Now that I feel so old, hold on to your grues because Zork is coming back to a computer near you! More specifically, Zork will be making it's comeback as a browser MMO.

The Legends of Zork website provides some basic background information: "The Great Underground Empire has recently fallen and the land is in disarray. The Royal Treasury has been sacked. The stock market has collapsed, leading even mighty FrobozzCo International to fire employees from throughout its subsidiaries. A craze of treasure-hunting has swept through the remnants of the Great Underground Empire. The New Zork Times reports that trolls, kobolds and other dangerous creatures are venturing far from their lairs. Adventurers and monsters are increasingly coming into conflict over areas rich with loot. It's a dangerous time to be a newly-unemployed traveling salesman, but it's also a great time to try a bit of adventuring."

Now where did I leave that torch...?