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Zork (2019)

0.1697Canon Score · ranked #153 all time

Aggregated from 4 of 17 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →

About the game

Zork is a text adventure game first released in 1977 by developers Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. The original developers and others, as the company Infocom, expanded and split the game into three titles—Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master—which were released commercially for a range of per

Why it ranks #153

Every list on which Zork appears, with its position as published.

ListAuthorityPosition
TIME 50 Greatest (2016)Editorial list#20 / 50
Polygon 500 Best (2017)Critics' canon#32 / 500
Next Generation Top 100 (1996)Editorial list#38 / 100
Game Informer Top 300 (2018)Critics' canon#186 / 300