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Title: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on September 18, 2007, 01:22:19 pm
http://almy.us/image/dungeon.jpg

I never played, but I figured some of you older geeks might get a kick out of this.

EDIT: For the kids among us, this is a map of the original Dungeon, the mainframe version of the epic game. It was split into Zorks I, I, and III for the home computer market.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ChadTower on September 18, 2007, 01:26:07 pm

That rules.  I'm tempted to print it and frame it.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: Hoopz on September 18, 2007, 01:27:31 pm
I don't remember where, but I had this years ago.  Never helped as I never finished it.

Very cool though except the older geek comment.   ;D
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ChadTower on September 18, 2007, 01:30:19 pm

You don't have to be that old, I beat that game when I was in 3rd grade.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on September 18, 2007, 01:35:32 pm
 :) This map is 28 years old.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ChadTower on September 18, 2007, 01:37:31 pm

Yeah, but you don't have to have played it 28 years ago to appreciate the map.  I sure wasn't playing it when I was in preschool.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: RayB on September 18, 2007, 02:26:37 pm
I could never get past the room with the sign that said "Abandon all hope ye who enter here".

I have a feeling I was barely through a small chunk of the game.....
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: zaphod on September 18, 2007, 03:07:29 pm
Very,very cool.  Thanks Mr. C. 
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ahofle on September 18, 2007, 03:10:45 pm

That rules.  I'm tempted to print it and frame it.

Yeah that should be in the Louvre.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: Ed_McCarron on September 18, 2007, 05:08:17 pm
You have entered a dark place.  You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

Very cool.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: Havok on September 19, 2007, 07:55:46 am
Awesome! Thanks for the post...

Man, this is soooo much better than the maps I used to draw when I was playing the Infocom games. Might have to fire up my WinFrotz emulator and enjoy this game again...

 :applaud:
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: TOK on September 19, 2007, 08:30:04 am
I got as far as the Flood Control section before getting bored and giving up. One of my buddies made a map on graph paper. It wasn't as slick as this one, but it was pretty accurate.

Back then, I was one of those damned new school kids that chose Castle Wolfenstein over text and graphic adventures.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: zaphod on September 19, 2007, 08:46:39 am
I used to spend way too many hours playing the Infocom games on a TI-99 4/A.  I loved all the text adventures. 
Ah the joys of youth and the endless amounts of free time that went along with it.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ChadTower on September 19, 2007, 08:51:01 am
I used to spend way too many hours playing the Infocom games on a TI-99 4/A.  I loved all the text adventures. 

I just gave away my last TI-99 and Infocom stuff to an old man here with health problems.  He was ecstatic - tore into it like a starving man would a steak.  It was awesome.

I actually beat Zork at school - if we completed our allocated work for the week we could spend the rest of the week doing certain approved activities of our choice, and using the class TI99 (later Apple 2e) was one of them.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: Dervacumen on September 19, 2007, 03:06:59 pm
I remember a friend showing this for the first time.  He was showing me all the commands that you could type in to get information, y'know like LOOK, TAKE, GRAB, etc. and then he showed me the command DIAGNOSE.  The description after this command in this particular location said something like, "Your NOSE is cold and running.".  So I wanted more information and asked him to type DIAGFACE.  He looked at me like I was a moron.
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on September 19, 2007, 04:25:13 pm
 :laugh2:
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: CCM on September 19, 2007, 04:26:18 pm
damn, I just got killed by a troll!!
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: Joystick Jerk on September 20, 2007, 02:28:41 am
Damn! I remember tooling around with Zork a bit when I was younger, but never played much of it. At the time, I thought the game was maybe around ten rooms in size. I never realized the game-world was actually this big!
Title: Re: Zork - The Original Map.
Post by: ChadTower on September 20, 2007, 08:44:34 am
:) This map is 28 years old.

Just noticed, the original drawing may be 28 years old, but this one says it was drawn in 01/1982.