You have arrived. Click the big green button and you’ll be transported to Infocom and the official download page. If there is such a thing as an official page.
There’s tons of sites offering a link to download Zork. But if this is your first rodeo then perhaps you should consider just playing online and skip the download for now.
Playing Zork online would offer you a quick introduction without the bother. I hate downloading stuff. Especially if I’m not sure about wanting it in the first place.
Before you know it your hard drive slows down and you go digging for stuff to get rid of and there you find all those programs you downloaded and didn’t use much.
But before you get too involved you need to be wearing one of these Zork shirts available on Amazon, you really shouldn’t play zork without a zork shirt.
Go to textadventures.co.uk and look past the big ad on top that says “start download” (it’s an ad) to the text below which is the start of playing Zork online.
It’s not cheating to have a list of commands list of commands for Zork or in other game, you think? Trying to come up with these commands on your own is entirely frustrating.
Many players have developed there own Zork map to help navigate through the game. Just so you have an idea of how that may look here’s an example below.
Doing a Google search in images for a Zork map will turn dozens of examples. No two alike as I remember.
It’s not uncommon to get stuck and want to quit. Before you do, go to Zork walkthrough, but stuck you must be or cheating you are.
And if stuck you are, let Scot walk you through in this video below.
Conclusion
Everything you need to get started and enjoy, hopefully. Zork is not for everyone. Interactive fiction is quite different than what we have today which is quite intense and constantly on the move.
I prefer a slower pace as found in games like Zork . May you also.
Enjoy