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You hit me with a ton of nostalgia. Never played the original zork but I enjoyed the rest games of the franchise.

Unfortunately I couldn't play it again because of the archaic graphics.

What graphics?

I never played Zork, but on the MUDs that I have played (Viking Mud, Midnight Sun, Deeper Trouble) there were some ASCII 'graphics'. Perhaps this is what is meant?

Zork is interactive fiction though (or text adventure as it used to be called), not a MUD. It's completely textual.

Interesting, I've played exactly the same MUDs. Scandinavian fellow, eh?

I think the later games (maybe Zork 4) had graphics after INFOCOM sold off the IP. Something along those lines maybe. I've only played Zork 1 and that was text only.

Their ads used to say that they " put their graphics where the sun don't shine"

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