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    Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

    Game » consists of 45 releases. Released February 1981

    West of House. You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

    Short summary describing this game.

    Credits

    Credits
    • Design
    • Bruce Daniels - Amstrad CPC written by / Apple II the original Zork was created by / Browser created at the MIT laboratory for computer science by / PC DOS created at the programming technology division of the MIT laboratory for computer science by
    • Dave Lebling - Amiga design / Amstrad CPC written by / Apple II the original Zork was created by and this version was created by / Atari ST game design / Browser created at the MIT laboratory for computer science by / C64 design / PC Booter design / PC DOS design and PC DOS created at the programming technology division of the MIT laboratory for computer science by / PlayStation original game author / TRS-80 CoCo interactive fiction by / Saturn author (original game)
    • Joel Berez - Apple II this version was created by
    • Marc Blank - Amiga design / Amstrad CPC written by / Apple II the original Zork was created by and this version was created by / Atari ST game design / Browser created at the MIT laboratory for computer science by / C64 design / PC Booter design / PC DOS design and created at the programming Ttchnology division of the MIT laboratory for computer science by / PlayStation original game author / TRS-80 CoCo interactive fiction by / Saturn author (original game)
    • Scott Cutler - Apple II this version was created by
    • Timothy Anderson - Amstrad CPC written by / Apple II the original Zork was created by / Browser created at the MIT laboratory for computer science by / PC DOS created at the programming technology division of the MIT laboratory for computer science by
    • Production
    • Hiroyasu Ikeuchi - PlayStation development staff / Saturn development staff
    • Kohei Ozaki - PlayStation producer and director / Saturn producer and director
    • Koji Hayami - PlayStation producer / Saturn producer
    • Programming
    • Akira Morino - PlayStation main program / saturn main program
    • Anthony C. Ard - Mac ported by
    • Bill Randle - PC DOS additional f77 programming and cleanup by (folded in save/restore functions and game debugging package to create a Vax/Unix version; reintroduced pdp dependencies with #ifdefs to have just one set of sources; added a shell escape of the form !cmd)
    • Curt Zirzow - Browser iFiction web-based Z-machine emulator created by
    • Dave Walton - Browser iFiction started, built and maintained by
    • David Gay - PC DOS f77 to C translation using f2c by (ATandT Bell Labs)
    • David Kinder - Amiga ported by / PC DOS ported to MS-DOS by
    • Ethan Dicks - Browser translated from MDL into inform by
    • Ian Lance Taylor - PC DOS translated from f77 to C by
    • John Gilmore - PC DOS additional f77 programming and cleanup by (cleaned up source by moving most common declarations into include files; added comments from the original)
    • Koji Saito - PlayStation interface program / Saturn interface program
    • Kurt Olsen - Atari ST ported by
    • Loren J. Rittle - Amiga ported by (v2.5)
    • Lynn Cochran - PC DOS translated from DEC FORTRAN to f77 by
    • Mark Maimone - PC DOS f77 to C translation using f2c by (Carnegie-Mellon University)
    • Norm Schryer - PC DOS f77 to C translation using f2c by (ATandT Bell Labs)
    • Randy Dietrich - PC DOS translated from DEC FORTRAN to f77 by
    • Robert Supnik - PC DOS ported to FORTRAN by
    • Sig Peterson - PC DOS translated from DEC FORTRAN to f77 by
    • Steve Dover - PC DOS ported by
    • Stu Feldman - PC DOS f77 to C translation using f2c by (Bellcore)
    • Volker Blasius - PC DOS ported to MS-DOS by
    • Visual Arts
    • Chris Kenyon - Apple II cover artwork (Personal Software)
    • Hideyuki Imaizumi - PlayStaion graphic design / Saturn graphic design
    • Audio
    • Hajime Asano - PlayStation sound effect / Saturn sound effect
    • Motohiro Kawashima - PlayStation music / Saturn music
    • Yuzo Koshiro - PlayStation music / Saturn music
    • Quality Assurance
    • Andre Srinivasan - PC DOS v2.7a tested by
    • Jonathan Mark - PC DOS MS-DOS and Microsoft C compatibility by
    • Mike Dornbrook - TRS-80 quality assurance
    • Unclassified
    • Dave Arneson - PC DOS also inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons game of
    • Don Woods - Apple II the original Zork was inspired by the adventure game of / Browser inspired by the adventure game of / PC DOS inspired by the Adventure game of
    • E. Gary Gygax - PC DOS also inspired by the Dungeons and Dragons game of
    • H. A. Trot - PlayStation technical support / Saturn technical support
    • Koji Noguchi - PlayStation technical support / Saturn technical support
    • Ryunosuke Ohshima - PlayStation technical support / Saturn technical support
    • Will Crowther - Apple II the original Zork was inspired by the adventure game of / Browser inspired by the adventure game of / PC DOS inspired by the Adventure game of
    • Yoshinori Ono - PlayStation technical support / Saturn technical support
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