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Adventure

Underground

Zork I

Author(s)	Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Publisher(s)	Personal Software, Infocom, Activision
Release date(s)	Dec-1980
Authoring system	ZIL
Platform(s)	Z-code
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Commercial
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruel

How It Begins

You are an adventurer, going into the Great Underground Empire to seek treasure. You begin west of the white house. As you explore the land around the house and the caves below it, you discover more than just treasure...

Notable Features

Improved multi-word parser.

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Trivia and Comments

Zork I inspired the parody Pork 1: The Great Underground Sewer System (Anonymous; 1998; AGT).

Versions

Personal Software release

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Infocom releases

Initial Release

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (authors: Marc Blank and Dave Lebling; publisher: Infocom; 1980; Z-code).
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Final Release

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (authors: Marc Blank and Dave Lebling; publisher: Infocom; 1983 or 84; Z-code 3).
- Revision 88 / Serial number 840726
- IFID: ZCODE-88-840726
  IFID links: IFDB

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Hugo port

Hugo Zork: The Great Underground Empire (porter: John Menichelli; 1997; Hugo).
- IFID: HUGO-25-49-53-02-06-99
  IFID links: IFDB

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Availability

Zork I is included on both The Lost Treasures of Infocom Volume I and the Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces of Infocom CD-ROMs.
In 2001, the Zork trilogy was briefly available for free download from the Activision website as part of their promotion for Zork: Grand Inquisitor. Activision retains the copyright to Zork I, and any other sites that offer the game for free download are very likely doing so illegally.

Links

General

Zork I (archived) - at Baf's Guide
Zork I - at IFDB
Zork I at Wikipedia.
Zork I at CSD (Internet Archive link).
Zork I at Zork Wiki.

Reviews

Zork I - at SPAG.

Spoilers

Zork I Speedrun - 7min46sec - YouTube video where "divadnotyad" plays Zork I really quickly.
"Walkthrough" - The walkthrough to Zork I sung by Errol, instrumentals by pifie, available as a downloadable .mp3. The lyrics are listed as well.
The Visible Zorker, a web-hosted version by Andrew Plotkin where you can play through while simultaneously examining internal game state, source code, and commentary. (Blog post, 14-Jan-2025.)

Solutions

Here are links to collections of solutions. Each collection contains either hints or a solution for Zork I:

Download hints.many from the IF Archive - hints by Anonymous.
Download jgunness.zip from the IF Archive - solutions by Jacob Gunness.
Download Sols1.zip from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.
Download Sols2.zip from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.
Download Sols3.zip from the IF Archive - solutions by Anonymous.

Source code

GitHub: Zork I Source Code Collection. Uploaded on 18 Apr 2019.
- Modified build from this source, with unlimited carrying capacity and light from the lantern.

Zork trilogy by Infocom
Zork I (1980)	Zork II (1981)	Zork III (1982)

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 ==How It Begins==
-You are an adventurer, seeking treasure and the [[Great Underground Empire]]. You begin west of the white house. As you explore the land around the house and the caves below it, you discover more than just treasure...
+You are an adventurer, going into the [[Great Underground Empire]] to seek treasure. You begin west of the white house. As you explore the land around the house and the caves below it, you discover more than just treasure...
 ==Notable Features==
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 ==Links==
+===General===
 * {{baf game|Zork I|987}}
 * {{ifdb game|Zork I|0dbnusxunq7fw5ro}}
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork_I Zork I] at Wikipedia.
-* [http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html Zork I] at CSD.
+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511010012/http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/zork1.html Zork I] at CSD (Internet Archive link).
+* [http://zork.wikia.com/wiki/Zork_I Zork I] at Zork Wiki.
 ===Reviews===
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 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1bLBy7gQPI&fmt=18 Zork I Speedrun - 7min46sec] - YouTube video where "divadnotyad" plays ''Zork I'' really quickly.
 * [http://5090.fawm.org/songs/4255/ "Walkthrough"] - The walkthrough to Zork I '''sung''' by Errol, instrumentals by pifie, available as a downloadable .mp3. The lyrics are listed as well.
+* [https://eblong.com/infocom/visi-zork1/ The Visible Zorker], a web-hosted version by [[Andrew Plotkin]] where you can play through while simultaneously examining internal game state, source code, and commentary. ([https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-visible-zorker Blog post], 14-Jan-2025.)
+===Solutions===
 Here are links to collections of solutions. Each collection contains either hints or a solution for ''Zork I'':
 * {{ifarchive|solutions/|hints.many}} - hints by Anonymous.
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 * {{ifarchive|solutions/|Sols2.zip}} - solutions by Anonymous.
 * {{ifarchive|solutions/|Sols3.zip}} - solutions by Anonymous.
+===Source code===
+* [https://github.com/historicalsource/zork1 GitHub: Zork I Source Code Collection]. Uploaded on 18 Apr 2019.
+** [https://github.com/heasm66/modified_zork1 Modified build] from this source, with unlimited [[inventory management puzzle|carrying capacity]] and [[light source|light from the lantern]].
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