Zork I: The Great List of Bugs
Normally, reading a list of known bugs for any given game would probably make flip out and complain on message boards and blogs until the developer patched the game for a bug that shouldn’t have been there in the first place with proper QA. At least that is what it seems like these days. Or everybody is exploiting some glitch or bug to gain unfair advantages in the online games. Hardly, if ever, are they actually so amusing to read that you are captivated into reading — and laughing — about nearly every single one, reminiscing about some by-gone yet warm and familiar moments of gaming.
This is what Graeme Cree’s Zork I bugs list turns out to be. Yes, that Zork I… the one about The Great Underground Empire that had you starting off the game standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door, and worrying about grues eating you in the dark.
The bugs detailed in the list nearly all produce hilarious results, such as “the command HIT MIRROR WITH SWORD will generate combat responses, such as ‘The mirror parries’…” If you remember those days of text-based adventures, go lose yourself for half an hour or more reading about the bugs. You won’t regret it.
Via Cathode Tan
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