I tried to play a game called Zork from inthe70s website. Zork is all about adventure game, and you are about to type some texting to make a move or interact. The game was all about texts and no animation at all such as the other games existed. However, player can do anything with typing such as "TAKE", "GO", "DROP", etc. For example if you want to drop a birdcage you just took, you can type "DROP BIRDCAGE" to drop it to the ground. Or if the player wants to go front, he can just type "GO NORTH". But the expert user can use some shortcuts of which are provided in this game. Such as "u" means up, "d" means down, "n" means north, and many more of them. There also scores recorded in this game, number of moves, and ranking as well. By typing score will display all of them in the current game progress.
Take? Open? Read? Just type to interact.
Zork was considered as one of the first of video games in the century, while it was first written in 1977. The story is the player is a no-named adventurer who is venturing to a dangerous ruins of ancient empire to search of wealth and adventure. The goal, however is to return the "Great Underground Empire" alive with treasures. The setting consists of creatures, objects, locations such as rocks, jungles, and so on.
The game is on the IOS too!
The game is the famous game in the gaming industry while it was implemented. I tried to explore, and do what I want, but the goal of the game is to find ways to solve the problem. However, this game is highly recommended only to players who are high in imagination and memorizing. Since this game is only a texts, I feel like I'm just a blind guy who is guided by messages every time I step my feet. So when I arrive on some places, I need to memorize, or more importantly write the mapping of where I went exactly in order to avoid lost. But that's troublesome and I don't think any of modern players wish to play the game again. But in fact, Zork is a wonderful adventure game and imaginative. When I first tried to play this game I was fascinated on the ideas of Zork's developer. It was an ancient game which are created and very interactive game to be played. You will explore strange rooms, temple, or even hades. But of course, these are described in texts.
Oh no... Where should I go?
Zork is a very interesting game which is made many years ago. While the presentation is nice and the story are great, but this game relies on player's skills to be played. Some players may need adventure walk-through to finish the game, since it can be very frustrating and confusing because it needs memorizing.
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