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The Return of Zork On ScummVM

Posted by Soulskill on from the revenge-of-the-grue dept.

KingofGnG writes "While waiting for the opening of Legends of Zork's game world, old and new adventurers can pick up the daily build of ScummVM, which, starting from March 7, added support for the MADE engine. The engine has been used by Activision to create four point-and-click adventure games from the '90s, among which is the venerable Return to Zork."

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  1. Everyone now! by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who'er you?!

    Don' matter!

    Want some rhy?!

    'Course ya do!!!

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  2. Why not link to the real ScummVM site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's neither a link in the summary nor on the actual blog post to the ScummVM website at http://scummvm.org

    I get the feelings someone just wants to get their blog slashvertised here.

  3. Error in title by joeflies · · Score: 2, Informative

    The game is called "Return to Zork". There is no "The" in the front.

  4. Re:Obama Policies Will Bankrupt USA Tsarkon Report by fractoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

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  5. Runs fine on DOSBox too by metzomagic · · Score: 3, Informative

    While it's nice to have this one working on ScummVM, it's been running fine on DOSBox for years now (since DOSBox v0.60 or so).

    MetzO'Magic

  6. NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! by 16384 · · Score: 2, Funny
    I though that clip had disappeared from my mind. It didn't. Thank you very much for reminding me...

    BTW: Bananaphone!, Badger Badger Badger!

  7. Venerable? by Snowspinner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Return to Zork is hardly a venerable game. It was a rather poor adventure game for the era, with at least one extremely counter-intuitive puzzle, as well as a error you can make very early in the game that renders it unbeatable, and gives you no clue that you've made an error when you make the mistake.

    Zork: Grand Inquisitor, the third of Activision's 90s Zork games, was the lone one of that set that can be fairly called Venerable.

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    Philip Sandifer's academic website
    1. Re:Venerable? by Legion_SB · · Score: 2, Insightful

      It's "venerable" because, despite its flaws, it's extremely memorable. I remember so much from that game, and I can't even remember what I played yesterday. There are a half-dozen scenes from that game permanently burned into my brain.

      And because of that, I am totally going to fire the game up in ScummVM, suffer through some warts, but enjoy the heck out playing out the scenes that I've been remembering for years.

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  8. Re:Zork interface on top of MMO already exists by MrNiceguy_KS · · Score: 2, Funny

    It is broad daylight. You are likely to be attacked by flying penises.

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