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Zork: The Undiscovered Underground

The purpose of the game is to explore and emerge successfully from the Undiscovered Underground. The player begins only with a low-quality Lantern and plastic imitation sword, a parody of the starting items…

28 August 1997

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground is an adventure developed by Infocom, released 28 August 1997 on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Mac.

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What Zork: The Undiscovered Underground is

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground is an adventure game developed by Infocom and released in 1997. It was published by Activision. It is available on Commodore C64/128/MAX and Mac.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The purpose of the game is to explore and emerge successfully from the Undiscovered Underground. The player begins only with a low-quality Lantern and plastic imitation sword, a parody of the starting items from Zorks I, II and III. Upon entering the Undiscovered Underground, the adventurer is trapped by a freak avalanche. The only way to escape is to release the mutant Rat Ants (an echo from Starcross) and to direct them to the avalanche, which they dispatch in a manner reminiscent of Aesop's Fables. The player must demask the Grue vendor to gain the four candy bars and place the relevant objects in the Mud Forum on the appropriate corresponding floor symbols. This unleashes a mutant chase…
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How it plays

It is played from a text perspective. Its themes are comedy and fantasy.

What it launched against

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground launched on 28 August 1997, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007 and Breath of Fire III.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, GoldenEye 007, Breath of Fire III.

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When did Zork: The Undiscovered Underground come out?
Zork: The Undiscovered Underground was released on 28 August 1997 for Commodore C64/128/MAX and Mac.

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