Zork

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Zork

electronic game

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- electronic adventure game
  Text-based adventures
  …for later games such as Zork (1977), which was written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the school’s computer system. Some of those students formed Infocom in 1979, which ported the game to early personal computers (PCs) and followed up with a few more text-based adventure games.
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  …for later games such as Zork (1977), which was written by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the school’s computer system. Some of those students formed Infocom in 1979, which ported the game to early personal computers (PCs) and followed up with a few more text-based adventure games.
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Zork
Will Crowther’s Adventure (c. 1975) was the prototype for text-based computer games organized as interactive stories, but in 1977 several students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided that they could write more sophisticated interactive fiction by abandoning FORTRAN, the programming language used for…
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Will Crowther’s Adventure (c. 1975) was the prototype for text-based computer games organized as interactive stories, but in 1977 several students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided that they could write more sophisticated interactive fiction by abandoning FORTRAN, the programming language used for…
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