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• The Zork series:
  • The original Zork Trilogy (Marc Blank & Dave Lebling):
    • Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
    • Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
    • Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)
  • The Enchanter Trilogy:
    • Enchanter (1983, Marc Blank and Dave Lebling)
    • Sorcerer (1984, Steve Meretzky)
    • Spellbreaker (1985, Dave Lebling)
  • Mini Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1987, Marc Blank & Dave Lebling, free cut-down, single load tape version of game, covermounted on UK's ZZAP!64 magazine)
  • Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor (1987, Brian Moriarty)
  • Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988, Steve Meretzky)
  • Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (1997, Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank)
• The Planetfall series:
  • Planetfall (1983, Steve Meretzky)
  • Stationfall (1987, Steve Meretzky)
• Deadline (1982, Marc Blank)
• Starcross (1982, Dave Lebling)
• Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare (1983, Michael Berlyn)
• The Witness (1983, Stu Galley)
• Infidel (1983, Michael Berlyn)
• Seastalker (1984, Stu Galley & Jim Lawrence)
• Cutthroats (1984, Michael Berlyn & Jerry Wolper)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984, Steve Meretzky & Douglas Adams)
• Suspect (1984, Dave Lebling)
• A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985, Steve Meretzky)
• Wishbringer: The Magick Stone of Dreams (1985, Brian Moriarty)
• Ballyhoo (1986, Jeff O'Neill)
• Hollywood Hijinx (1986, 'Hollywood' Dave Anderson)
• Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986, Steve Meretzky)
• Moonmist (1986, Stu Galley & Jim Lawrence)
• Trinity (1986, Brian Moriarty)
• Border Zone (1987, Marc Blank)
• Bureaucracy (1987, Infocom & Douglas Adams)
• The Lurking Horror (1987, Dave Lebling)
• Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It (1987, Jeff O'Neill)
• Plundered Hearts (1987, Amy Briggs)
• Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1988, Bob Bates)
• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur (1989, Bob Bates)
• James Clavell's Shogun (1989, Dave Lebling)
• Journey (1989, Marc Blank)

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A venerable old trophy case stands in a corner. You curiously open the lid and peek inside.

1. The following game is not an official Infocom game, but is the game where much of the material of the Zork trilogy came from. Dungeon (Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, Dave Lebling; 1979). Infocom Interactive Fiction. The following games were published by Infocom. This listing should be in chronological order.
2. All products by Infocom in chronological order. Releases past 1989 are not included, as on those Infocom is only used as a label.
3. Fortunately, Infocom games have been released on major computer platforms during the 80's. And it's very easy to find disk images of Infocom games in 8bit Emulator format (Apple, Amiga, Commodore 64). More interesting: in order to facilitate portability of its games to a dozen of machine (before PC hegemony), Infocom has developed a technology.
4. This directory contains games in Infocom Z-Machine format, NOT games published by the company Infocom. The games here can be played with an Infocom game interpreter; look in infocom/interpreters for a version for your system. Source code of the games, if available, can be found in games/source/inform.

Infocom's history

Infocom was the company that came out with some of the first and dearest adventures. Remember the Zork and Enchanter trilogies, Trinity, A Mind Forever Voyaging? Unfortunately, after the company was bought by Activision in 1986, the games soon went out of stock. If you are lucky enough to find them, that's a great option, as they come with really beautiful boxes and goodies, which greatly enhance the games' atmosphere. Be prepared, however, to pay collector's prices, and don't rely on the floppies still being playable after 20 years' time. They have become mostly collectors' items, and non-playability is not the sellers' fault.

Copyright issues

A collection of Infocom games, 'The Lost Treasures of Infocom', was republished by Activision in 2012 as an app for IPhone and IPad. Sadly, it appears to have been discontinued. If you were lucky enough to grab it, hold onto it by all means, as the games come with so many goodies, from feelies to Invisiclues for all games.

For the rest of us, it's back to the old issues. As far as I know, Activision have still not declared the games abandonware. But I do not believe that it is in the spirit of copyright law that works of art drift into oblivion by unavailability. The day the games are republished in their old glory, I will gladly remove the files from this site. Until then, I hope they will be allowed to remain here so you can have fun downloading and playing. Chances are that after playing, you will want to buy the original games, with all the beautiful fluff that comes with them.

Please note: I took down Zork Beyond, Zork Zero and Planetfall since they are available as a package on GOG.com. Grab them, by all means, and let's hope for more.

How to play (technical issues)

You can play the games either in DOS or - much more comfortably - with the Frotz Z-machine (find a version for your platform on the left hand side). It was originally designed for playing Infocom files and can interpret the .DAT or .ZIP game file (which in some cases is in the 'Data' directory).
If your Frotz interpreter refuses to open a .DAT or .ZIP file included in some of the games below, try starting Frotz first and opening the file from there. (Don't forget to tell Frotz it can open any file, not only z*-files.) That should work.

The games

So, here are the game files. Copy protection material is added where necessary. Mind that this is only what you absolutely need for playing. You should by all means pay a visit to The Infocom Gallery for fine replicas of the original Infocom game packages and gimmicks.

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