Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
System(s): Sega Saturn
Publisher: Shoeisha
Developer:
Licensor: Activision
Original system(s): PC
Developer(s) of original games: Infocom
Sound driver: SCSP/CD-DA (31 tracks)
Genre: Adventure[1][2]

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Saturn
JP
¥5,8005,800 T-21502G
Sega Rating: All Ages
Non-Sega versions

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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (ゾーク・ワン) is a text-adventure game originally developed by Infocom for various computers in 1980. It was ported by Activision to the Sega Saturn and published by Shoeisha in 1996. Rather than using the Saturn Keyboard, this game is played by selecting words from a prepared list of words.

Production credits

  • ZORK I was converted to SegaSaturn by:
  • Producer: Koji Hayami / Kohei Ozaki
  • Director: Kohei Ozaki
  • Development Staff: Hiroyasu Ikeuti
  • Main Program: Akira Morino
  • Interface Program: Koji Saito
  • Graphic Design: Hideyuki Imaizumi
  • Sound Effect: Hajime Asano
  • Music: Yuzo Koshiro / Motohiro Kawashima
  • Technical Support: H.A.Trot / Ryunosuke Oshima / Koji Noguti / Yoshinori Ono
  • Original Game Authors: Dave Lebling & Marc Blank
Source:
JP manual[3]


Magazine articles

Main article: Zork I: The Great Underground Empire/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

ZorkI Saturn JP Flyer.pdf

PDF
Flyer
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Print advert in (JP) #1996-01: "1996-01 (1996-01-12,26)" (1995-12-22)
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Physical scans

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Publication Version Score
(JP) NTSC-J
53
[4]
(JP) NTSC-J
75
[5]
(JP) NTSC-J
63
[6]
(JP) NTSC-J
83
[7]
Sega Saturn
68
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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

Saturn, JP
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Cover
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Spinecard
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Disc
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Manual Addendum

Technical information

Main article: Zork I: The Great Underground Empire/Technical information.

External links

  • Sega of America webpage: Saturn

References


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