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| {{Infobox_Software |
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| software_name = Zork|
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| software_image = [[File:Zork screenshot.png|300px]]|
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| developer = [[Dave Lebling]], [[Bruce Daniels]], [[Marc Blank]], [[Tim Anderson]]|
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| publisher = [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]|
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| systems = [[DOS]], [[Glulx]], [[PDP-6]], [[PDP-10]], [[TADS]], [[Z-code]]|
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| release = 1977|
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| added_to_museum = DOS, Glulx, TADS, Z-code: September 7, 2019|
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| }}
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| '''''Zork''''' is a [[adventure game#text adventures|text adventure game]] that is the original first game in the ''Zork'' series.
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| It was developed under the title '''''Dungeon'''''. However, it was renamed to its prototype title, ''Zork'', due to a trademark claim by the owners of the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' franchise
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| ''Zork'' was developed on [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT's]] [[ITS]] [[operating system]] for the [[PDP-6]] and [[PDP-10]] mainframe [[computer]]s, between [[1977]] and [[1978]] by MIT university students [[Dave Lebling]], [[Bruce Daniels]], [[Marc Blank]], and [[Tim Anderson]].
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| ==Versions==
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| ''Zork'' was freely released on the [[ARPANET]], the precursor of the [[internet]]. However, when three of the four designers of ''Zork'' formed [[Infocom]], it was split into three text adventure games (''[[Zork I]]'', ''[[Zork II|II]]'', and ''[[Zork III|III]]'') so that it could be released commercially on the personal computer hardware of the time.
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| [[Volker Blasius]] ported ''Zork'' to [[DOS]] in [[1987]].
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| The original version of ''Zork'' has also been converted to several scripting languages:
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| *A [[TADS]] version was developed by [[Darin Johnson]] in [[1996]].
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| *A [[Glulx]] version was developed by [[Ethan Dicks]] in [[Inform|Inform 6]] in [[2004]].
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| *A [[Z-code]] version was developed by [[Dean Menezes]] in [[Inform|Inform 7]] in [[2008]].
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