Zork is not the kind of game most people are playing in 2022. It’s entirely text-based, for one thing; our increasingly limited attention spans simply cannot handle the lack of images. When it first made its debut in the late ‘70s, though, Zork was mind-blowing. So much so that it even caught the attention of Bill Gates, leader of the then-infant software company known as Microsoft.
Now, more than forty years after the first Zork game’s wide release, Microsoft technically owns the rights to the Zork empire. The text-based adventure and its sequels could theoretically come to Xbox Game Pass in the next few years.
