Trivia
Eric the Unready was named #103 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on May 02, 2008.
Eric the Unready has won the following awards:
1994 Game Bytes Editor's Choice Award
1993 Strategy Plus Adventure Game of the Year
1993 Games Magazine Top 100 Games of the Year Award
1993 Computer Game Review Golden Triad Award
1993 Compute Choice Award Finalist
1993 Computer Gaming World Adventure Game of the Year
In a recent interview, when Bob Bates was asked which was the most favorite game he designed or wrote, he said:
"Eric The Unready is my favorite, because I had so damn much fun writing it. I remember clearly being up in the middle of the night for many nights in a row, cackling to myself over the oddball responses I built into oddball inputs. My goal was to always reward the player for being creative. The odder his input, the more I wanted to reward him. I couldn't do that in my other games, because comedy wasn't the focus. In Eric, I could have as much fun as I wanted to, and I did."
Contributed by
Belboz (6609) on Feb 16, 2001.
There's an excellent homage to Zork 1 in Eric the Unready:
About halfway in the game, you pass through a turnstile. Suddenly, the interface and the graphics are removed, so that there's only plain text on the screen. It reads:
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
You see a small mailbox here.
This is the beginning of Zork 1. Of course, you can play on normally and investigate the building.
Contributed by
-Chris (7376) on Aug 09, 2000.
Box cover painting is by Boris Vallejo.
