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	Title: (PC Communiques) Zork Invades PC
	Source: PC Magazine, v1(4)
	Date: August-September 1982
	Transcription by Steve Derby
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*Zork*, one of the famed games for personal computers,
is now available to PC users. This intricate prose adventure,
which takes place in "The Great Underground Empire." is offered
by Infocom of Cambridge,  Massachusetts, hometown of
MIT, where it reputedly was developed (in the artificial
intelligence lab). The designers of *Zork* seem to have thought of
everything, outwitting players at practically every turn and
providing dangerously logical, and often hilarious, responses to
players' actions. This is a game you can play for weeks and
never finish; you can, however, save your current position to
take up where you left off when your strength or wits return.
Infocom also has several companions to *Zork*, including
*Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz* and *Deadline*.

If you've played *Zork* or know people who have, you
probably also know that many players become *Zork* addicts.
One of the most challenging aspects of this game (and its
successors) is that your imagination must supply all the
visuals. This is a prose game in which you move about in an
unseen world, with only your mind's eye and your memory for
guides. But hark — here comes the Zork Users Group to the
rescue! These folks have risen from the underground empire
long enough to publish maps, clues, and blueprints for the
Infocom games. For clues to their clues, write the Zork Users
Group at P.O. Box 20923, Milwaukee, WI 53220: for the
games, contact Infocom, 55 Wheeler St., Cambridge, MA
02138, or check with your dealer.