{"id":1127,"date":"2015-05-18T11:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T21:45:58","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-zork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1127\/retro-scan-of-the-week-zork","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Zork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/zork_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/zork_small.jpg\" alt=\"Personal Software Infocom Zork advertisement - 1981\" class=\"retroscan\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>A scene from &#8220;Zork: Brick Collector&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is it, folks: an early ad (maybe the first) for the original commercial release of <em>Zork<\/em>, the famous Infocom text adventure, published by Personal Software ca. 1980 for the TRS-80 Model I and III home computers.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/yois.if-legends.org\/vault.php?id=923\" target=\"_blank\">This site<\/a> has some wonderful background history on this release.)<\/p>\n<p>I love the artwork featured in this ad.  It is excised from the <a href=\"http:\/\/yois.if-legends.org\/vault.php?id=923\" target=\"_blank\">full cover art<\/a> for the Personal Software version, which captures a great deal of the majesty and wonder of the seminal adventure title &#8212; plus a hefty dose of out-of-place machismo.<\/p>\n<p>The mere mention of <em>Zork<\/em> takes me back to the mid-1980s when my older brother delved into the Great Underground Empire with the aid of photocopied maps and worn out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/InvisiClues\" target=\"_blank\">InvisiClues<\/a> on our family&#8217;s Atari 800.  Warm, fuzzy memories.  Of course, by then, Infocom published the title directly.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Byte, February 1981, p.31]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite text adventure game of all time? (Modern ones count.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scene from &#8220;Zork: Brick Collector&#8221; This is it, folks: an early ad (maybe the first) for the original commercial release of Zork, the famous Infocom text adventure, published by Personal Software ca. 1980 for the TRS-80 Model I and III home computers. (This site has some wonderful background history on this release.) I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,7,13,27,26,9,10],"tags":[92,673,1704,1703,674],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computer-info-and-history","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming","category-computers","tag-92","tag-infocom","tag-personal-software","tag-text-adventures","tag-zork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2934,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions\/2934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}