I will freely admit that this is probably the single most pointless video ever uploaded to WeGame, but eh, that's just the kind of mood I'm in. Zork was programmed throughout 1977-1979 for DEC mainframe computers. The name "Zork" is actually programmer jargon for unfinished code, and the name of the game was ultimately supposed to be changed to "Dungeon." Some versions of the game implement this name change. But the popularity of the game escalated before the name change, so "Zork" stuck. Zork wasn't the first game of this type, simply one of the most popular. It draws heavily from another mainframe game of the era, Adventure. The PC version was published by Infocom. The game was too large to fit on the available home media at the time, so content was added and the game was divided into a trilogy. Most of the text-based sequels, either true Zork sequels or games set in the same universe, are done as trilogies. The game has been ported to practically every system imaginable with text input, from PDAs to even a text-to-speech telephone application. (more...)