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Zork I

Commercialized text adventure with a strong parser, defining interactive fiction for a decade.

Released 1980 Developer Infocom Platform Apple II Genre Text Adventure Era The home cartridge

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Zork I inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

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