Phil sez, "Errol and Pifie, two members of the 50 Songs in 90 Days songwriting challenge (known as 50/90) have created a nerd-core masterpiece. A rockin' walkthrough to the original ZORK text adventure game."

Walkthrough, MP3 download (Thanks, Phil!)

Previously:

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StRevAlex

Wow. How fabulously obscure!
flufnut12

That was awesome!! I remember playing Zork on a Apple IIe. Makes me want to find a copy and try playing it again. I don’t think I ever finished it.
Anonymous

thanks for this!

it was a real feeling of accomplishment when I finally beat zork!

wish I could my kids to play it..not even for money..
Anonymous

beautiful
lotsajargon

Unbelievable. The fourteen-year old dork on the Commodore 64 just jumped out of me, laughed and ran to the north…
Anonymous

I case you’re not aware of it, you should also look up “It is pitch dark” (yes, dark, not black) on Youtube. It’s an interactive fiction song by MC Frontalot.
Anonymous

There is a Zorkmid for sale on Ebay….
ESQ

What wonderfully perfect timing, as just yesterday I gave my 9yr old son ZORK and recorded his every move…
Anonymous

ZORK< Kill *.* with sword. Look North ( the road is dark and forbidding ! I wouldnt go that way…) Go North…. Id type… Loved it cause imagination was still involved. I had a multi dimentional map i drew to picture this literary world and loved it !!! First on my cassette Apple and then a floppy disk…Friggin High Tech….Dos was my friend and i was the master of my domaine and computer. Kids today would cringe at the sight of DOS….Those were exciting times. US Festival… I was there. D.T.F 1984 grad. H.S.
mdh

so many afternoons…
Charles Guarino

fweep!
Ian70

Oh THAT’s what you’re supposed to do there… well that explains everything.
wrybread

Great song, but I don’t think there was anything about Zork that really merited this super stacatto delivery. I think it would have been funnier if it was all moody like Leonard Cohen or better yet William Shatner. I’d at least like to be able to understand more than every 5th word.

That’s not to say I don’t love it. I can almost feel the big stiff keyboard under my fingers and the green on black screen.

Zork rock anthem

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