Zork, Gadzooks

In a fit of nostalgia, we've thrown up the Zork games--the ones that use the z-machine, at any event. Check them out here:

• Zork I: The Great Underground Adventure
  
• Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
  
• Zork III: The Dungeon Master
  
• Zork: The Undiscovered Underground

All four are playable in-browser, using a Java applet that interprets the original z-machine files. To play in-browser, you will need Java installed on your machine; if it isn't, you can get it here. One drawback, though; Java's sandbox model doesn't allow you to save data, so you won't be able to save your game.

If you want to do that, you can download a z-machine interpreter for your computer (page provides links to good ones for PCs, Macs, and -nix machines), and then download the z-machine file for each game (links provided on the game's page).

Incidentally, over time, we expect to be adding some of the better IF titles to the site, both z-machine and otherwise.