and whats the objectiive of it???

ive nevr played any text adventures in my life so this si a 1st time for me and it sounds fun oh wait i did play 1 text adventure called "cross country canada" but was really limited to compass directions but it did have an easter egg of being able to peee on the side of teh road for some reason ...

http://thcnet.net/error/index.php

XD cool and i can read it better

> eat leaves

I don't think that the pile of leaves would agree with you.

go west.

open mailbox

take leaflet

read leaflet

drop leaflet
:whistling:

Oh man, we had this on our computers back in grade school, I never did beat it, or get far, because I did not know how to spell that good. :sadvaultboy:

> pull

You can't move the grating.

> push

Pushing the pile of leaves doesn't do anything.

> pick up leaves

You already have it.

> push

Pushing the pile of leaves doesn't appear worthwhile.

> push the grating

Pushing the grating doesn't appear worthwhile.

> eat the grating

You can't take the grating.


XD im ROFL atm why is it tellign me there is grating buried beneath teh elaves if i cant do anything to get rid of them

That's awesome.
It's a shame tho, I don't even know the first word to write :facepalm:

> walk

That would involve quite a contortion!

type east

> die

It is forbidden to commit seppuku.


o.0 what is seppuku


o.0 it can be multiplayer o.0

> say hello

You must LOGIN to SAY things to other users.

> open the mailbox

It is already open.

> close the mailbox

Closed.

> open the mailbox

Opened.

> close the mailbox

Closed.

> break mailbox

You must supply an indirect object.



I don't understand what I'm supposed to be doing.



seppuku is what the samurai did to kill themselves, basically stab themselves in the gut with a tanto

- Open mailbox

- Take leaflet

- Read leaflet

- n

- e

- Open window

- Enter house

you should be able to figure it out from there

my favorite game of all time
we played the entire series when they came out
it is a 30-40 hour game
use pen paper so you do not get lost

Zork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language. All four were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group.


Zork running on a TRS-80"Zork" was originally MIT hacker slang for an unfinished program. The implementors briefly named the completed game Dungeon, but changed it back to Zork after receiving a trademark violation notice from the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons. Zork has also been adapted to a book series.

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 5?" 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, micros 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. A version of Zork I was issued as a hidden 'easter egg' in Call of Duty: Black Ops, a video game produced as a collaboration between Activision and Treyarch in November of 2010. It has the exact same text as in the above picture, and follows the same rules that the original does.

Zork distinguished itself in its genre as an especially rich game, in terms of both the quality of the storytelling and the sophistication of its text parser, which was not limited to simple verb-noun commands ("hit grue"), but some prepositions and conjunctions ("hit the grue with the Elvish sword").





Zork is set in a sprawling underground labyrinth which occupies a portion of the "Great Underground Empire". The player is a nameless adventurer whose goal is to find the treasures hidden in the caves and return alive with them, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master. The dungeons are stocked with many novel creatures, objects and locations, among them grues, zorkmids, and Flood Control Dam #3—all of which are referenced by subsequent Infocom text adventures.

FrobozzCo International is a fictional monopolous conglomerate from the game. FrobozzCo products are littered throughout all Zork games, often with humorous effect.

-Burn house

-Loot remains

-Flee south

:teehee:

I always get stuck here. :cryvaultboy:

http://i52.tinypic.com/348kaaf.jpg
:(

Go up/down maybe?

From the start:

>s

>e

>open window

>enter house

>w

>move rug

>open trapdoor

>d

You win!

>look around

You were eaten by a grue.

It is dark...

your sig goes great with this. :biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXOYhnEH29k

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Zork is set in a sprawling underground labyrinth which occupies a portion of the "Great Underground Empire". The player is a nameless adventurer whose goal is to find the treasures hidden in the caves and return alive with them, ultimately inheriting the title of Dungeon Master. The dungeons are stocked with many novel creatures, objects and locations, among them grues, zorkmids, and Flood Control Dam #3—all of which are referenced by subsequent Infocom text adventures.

FrobozzCo International is a fictional monopolous conglomerate from the game. FrobozzCo products are littered throughout all Zork games, often with humorous effect.
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actually the player is named "zork"

i typed zork and it said "at your service"

> eat bottle

Taken.
I don't think that the glass bottle would agree with you.



any one willing to explain this ???

> drop sack

Dropped.

> empty sack

I can't see one here.

> pick up sack

Taken.





> d

Only Santa Claus climbs down chimneys.

o.0 but im inside the house o.0

Exits are NORTH, SOUTH and DENNIS

Cookie for reference