Play Interactive Fiction
Text adventure games were very popular with users of the first home computers. In contrast to modern games with spectacular 3D graphics and surround sound, text adventures look very spartan. They output only text, and you control the game by typing commands on your keyboard. Here you can see the opening of Zork, one of the most famous text adventures.
| <= | ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire |
| | Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. |
| | ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc. |
| | Revision 88 / Serial number 840726 |
| | West of House |
| | You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a |
| | boarded front door. |
| | There is a small mailbox here. |
| | |
| => | >open mailbox |
| <= | Opening the small mailbox ... |
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