Teen
ESRB Rating
Genre
Perspective
Non-Sport
73
MobyRank
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
3.5
MobyScore
5 point score based on user ratings.

Description

You are standing behind the white house. There is something in the mailbox. A video message from a wizard informing you that you are the sweepstakes winner to the Valley of the Sparrows... right now, by magic flight. Upon arriving at this mysterious place however, not everything is as it should be. There's nobody to meet you and those who you do come across don't seem to have any knowledge about a sweepstakes. It looks like this is a private vacation and you'll need to find your own way through this land.

Return to Zork is a 1st person adventure game using video, and the revival of the famous Zork series by Activation. Similar to Myst in interface, you must rotate your viewpoint to discover new areas and uncover items that can be used or picked up. Various characters will be met along the way and spoken to via a system of dialog choices.

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User Reviews

The Encyclopedia Frobozzica manual is more entertaining than the game. WildKard (11891) 2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars2.5 Stars
An adequate adventure, but not very Zorkish. Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1536) 3.33 Stars3.33 Stars3.33 Stars3.33 Stars3.33 Stars
Historically important, but confusing and frustrating Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60462) 3.17 Stars3.17 Stars3.17 Stars3.17 Stars3.17 Stars
Zork -- Now with Pictures! Game22 (42) 3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars3.5 Stars
Creativity at its finest! Deen F (4) unrated
One of the best adventure games James1 (248) unrated

The Press Says

Abandonia Jan 22, 2005 5 out of 5 100
Quandary Feb, 1998 4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars4.5 Stars 90
High Score Jan, 1994 4 out of 5 80
Top Secret Feb, 1994 8 out of 10 80
PC Games (Germany) Jan, 1994 79 out of 100 79
Power Play Dec, 1993 53 out of 100 53
Just Adventure Dec 07, 2003 D 25

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Trivia

The floppy version of this game came on an incredible 21 floppies! In order to play the game, you had to spend a fair amount of time installing it first by floppy swapping. It proved to be one more reason to get a CD-Rom drive for your computer.


This entry was contributed by Corn Popper (66169), Dragom (4354), Kabushi (48044), Derrick 'Knight' Steele (2187) and Cyborg (605)
 

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