Zork is somewhat overrated; it's from a time when adventure games were a grab-bag of fantasy cliches and "zany" objects. The past two decades have been spent retconning it into something grander than it actually was.
However, there's some amazing interactive fiction out there; atmospheric, tight writing. Totally immersive story. Brain-wrenching puzzles. It'd be great to read / play these on a Kindle. Some of my favourites:
Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin [eblong.com] - possibly the most unreliable narrator ever. See how
You have:
First Post
You have:
First Post
>give First Post to Troll
The troll accepts your gift, and not having the most discriminating tastes, eats it.
The troll, disarmed, is cowering and begging for forgiveness in the gutteral tongue of the trolls.
And it makes a ridiculous amount of sense
No, ridiculous sense is not sensible enough! We need to be more sensible! Prepare brains for.... LUDICROUS SENSE.
Zork is somewhat overrated; it's from a time when adventure games were a grab-bag of fantasy cliches and "zany" objects. The past two decades have been spent retconning it into something grander than it actually was.
However, there's some amazing interactive fiction out there; atmospheric, tight writing. Totally immersive story. Brain-wrenching puzzles. It'd be great to read / play these on a Kindle. Some of my favourites: