Posted February 06, 2013
I don't know how many people know about this but Activision did a port of the classic Zork to the PS1 and Sega Saturn but it seems to have been a Japan only release. What is interesting about this version is that it's still a text adventure just with a little graphic in the background to give you a idea of where you are and a zork 0 style border, commands seems to be handled by picking letters and words from either a list or from the game's text.. you know it's really hard to explain so I'll just link a video of the Saturn version in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2LF51mtuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2LF51mtuE