I'm so happy about Zork coming to GOG... Text adventures have a real place in my heart.

For anyone who enjoys text games, here's more that you may enjoy. Zork wasn't the first of its kind -- Interactive Fiction has a deep and fascinating legacy.

Twisty Little Passages is a book that examines the history and design of text adventures. A solid read, and a good launching point if you want to make text adventures yourself.

Get Lamp: A documentary about adventures in text. Has a great tag line, too -- "Before the First Person Shooter, there was the Second Person Thinker." The producer is touring around showing the movie everywhere he can, and the movie itself is Creative Commons licensed to share easily. Sweet deal!

Thanks a ton for these!

To anyone who loves text adventures, but hasn't seen Get Lamp, it is an absolutely essential own. I own the official DVD, and I was blown away. It goes into incredible depth on all the major facets of the genre, has some amazing interviews with the format's pioneers, including Don Woods (co-creator of Colossal Cave Adventure), Scott Adams (Adventure International), most of, if not all the Implementors of Infocom, and more. There are also interviews with many of the genre's modern supporters and fans.

It talks about everything from the history of Interactive Fiction, to the genre's cliches, and even what is being done with the genre today as an art form.

There is also a ton of bonus features, including a second documentary specifically about the history of Infocom (the company behind Zork).

I highly recommend Get Lamp. It is professionally done, very informative, and a lot of fun.

Shame it appears to be so incredibly expensive!

it has been released via a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons license that allows noncommercial sharing. This is especially easy to see on this person's other documentary(under the same license) where extra disc packaging was produced and so he's selling just the packaging for a lower price knowing that people can obtain the film for free, burn it to a disc, and place it in the packaging.