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Zork is one of the earliest computer games and was the start of the computer game industry. It was written on a PDP-10 in the late 1970s by MIT employees. These developers founded the company Infocom in 1979, which would become one of the most important developers of adventure games in the 1980s. The original game was too big for home computers at the time and was therefore only partially released as Zork I. A dozen more successors followed later. The original Zork games are text adventures without images (graphics). The player has to navigate through an underground labyrinth ('The Great Underground Empire') by means of text instructions. Movement goes with the commands > e = East > w = West > n = North > s = South The famous starting scene can be found here: http://www.red-bean.com/sussman/if/zork.png
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