You are in a maze of little twisting passages, all different

[Robert Deis]

Zork Lives!!

I'll never forget that silly game- unless I get eaten by a grue!

On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, james accordino wrote:

> 
> --- Peter McConnel <peter at madriver.com> wrote:
> > it was the '70s and i played a dungeon game on a
> > Digital PDP 8(later on a
> > PDP 11). the game interface was verbal only.
> > sentences describing where you
> > were and what was happening came up as you navigated
> > the maze. left right up
> > down forward and backward were the directional
> > possibilities, and you would
> > be prompted to pick up an item, or kill a dwarf,
> > etc. i really don't
> > remember
> > much but the email signature on your Q list email:
> > "You are in a maze of
> > little twisting passages, all different" was the
> > first prompt at the
> > beginning of the game...
> > i would be very interested in jogging my memory
> > further on this. Who's email
> > signature is this?
> 
> That's not my tag, but when I was growing up in New
> Jersey in the 70's my friends dad worked for Bell
> Labs.  He had a funky modem for a rotary phone, and he
> hooked us up with that game (Zork, BTW) on the
> computer at MIT.  We spent many long nights trying to
> figure that thing out.  It was my first experience
> with a computer.
> 
> Jim Accordino
> Lord Dimwit flathead the excessive
> 

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