Return to Zork

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.

Part of the Following Groups

• Photography
• Zork series

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User Reviews

Historically important, but confusing and frustrating	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (53164)
Zork -- Now with Pictures!	DOS	Game22 (42)
The Encyclopedia Frobozzica manual is more entertaining than the game.	DOS	WildKard (11963)
An adequate adventure, but not very Zorkish.	DOS	Ye Olde Infocomme Shoppe (1546)
Creativity at its finest!	DOS	Deen F (4)
One of the best adventure games	DOS	James1 (248)

The Press Says

Tap-Repeatedly/Four Fat Chicks	Windows	Apr 06, 2003		100
Just Adventure	Windows	Apr 10, 2002	A	100
Adventure Gamers	Windows	Jan 25, 2005		90
GameSpot	Windows	Dec 01, 1997	8 out of 10	80
Adventure Classic Gaming	Windows	May 29, 1998	4 out of 5	80
Top Secret	DOS	Feb, 1994	8 out of 10	80
Quandary	Windows	Dec, 1997		80
High Score	DOS	Jan, 1994	4 out of 5	80
PC Games (Germany)	DOS	Jan, 1994	79 out of 100	79
Just Adventure	DOS	Dec 07, 2003	D	25

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Trivia

In the Macintosh version of Return To Zork, many things that were not required for completing the game were eliminated. For example, in the original DOS version, showing the matches to the Lighthouse Keeper would trigger a response "Thank you, I never smoke *cough*". In the Macintosh version however, he simply has nothing to say about it.