The documentation was often far more interesting than the game itself.

My friends and I were blown away when we first encountered Zork, because it was so much bigger and better and more immersive than any previous adventure game.  I have no idea how many after-school hours I spent on the original Zork trilogy.

Thanks to Doppel Frog for the link. I tried it, and that works. But this does not change the fact that this game trully sucks.

I like Montezuma’s Revenge much better.

Some thinly veiled anti-Turkish sentiment, eh?

(And quite possibly deflected off one of the Space-Goddesses boobs…what an awesome game!)

R.I.P. Dani Bunten.

A LOT of the games from this period were like this, sadly. A friend of mine played some adventure game whose name I am blocking. He reached the end, where I believe he had to light a fuse or a signal fire or something. And he had a lighter in his inventory. All means of trying to actually light the damn thing failed.. “light fuse” “light lighter” “light fuse with lighter” “ignite fuse” “use lighter” etc. All failed. And he died and had to start over. Again and again.

As it turned out, the *only* way to light the item and finish the game was the command “flick bic”

Apparently, game designers of the time thought good puzzle design involved guessing a magic phrase.

LAND, moron!

I remember looking through adverts in CREATIVE COMPUTING at advertisements for games like World Builder, and feeling so envious of computer owners and so horribly out of it. I played plenty of SF boardgames, and a play-by-mail SF empire game called STAR MASTER, but surely a sophisticated computer game would blow those away!

I take some comfort, however belated, in seeing how lame this particular game appears to be.

So, Mark, are you going to write up your visit to this rocket club?