Return to Zork

Posted by Ernest Petti.
First posted on 29 May 1998. Last updated on 11 August 2009.
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Return to Zork is the first game in the Zork series to be set entirely in a graphical world. As such the question that springs immediately to mind is whether or not the essence of the puzzles, dialogs, and humor that is characteristically Zorkian can survive the transfer to a graphical medium. Return to Zork succeeds as well as it can be expected from such a first attempt. While the game is not…

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Excellent

Played it years ago on a new 386. Awesome.
Scrapped old 386 and etc
Now have a fast machine running vista
I can get it to (mostly) run using DOSBOX but no videos. I know there are some because I saw them years ago. I can't do the mine cart because I don't see where the right guys left it, right straight up!
So I am stuck.
How can I get those old video sequences back?

New Zealand (Aotearoa) By geo • On 28 October 2009 • From marton nz

Excellent

best game ever

Australia By Shanerazor • On 30 September 2009 • From Sydney, Australia

@cynth Yes. You just need to download the newest build of ScummVM. It now supports the game.

Poland By Igor Hardy • On 06 April 2009 • From Poland

Very Good

hi there. i have been after this game in years. i used 2 play this 4 hours. is there any chance it can be played on my windows vista????? can u let me know thanks. cynth

Great Britain (UK) By cynth • On 06 April 2009 • From hemel hempstead

Very Good

Have been given CD of this game as a Christmas present( i used to have it installed on my old windows 3.1 486 pc in 1994/1995). Unforunately I cannot get it to work on my Vista laptop. HELP!!

Great Britain (UK) By mike Johnston • On 11 January 2009 • From aberdeen

Excellent

Susan: It can work on Mac OS X. Just download DOSBox for Mac OS X and run the game through it.

Oh, and just to be exact it was "Want some rye?" :)

Poland By Igor Hardy • On 21 October 2008 • From Poland

Excellent

Wish it was written for Mac OS X. Loved the game. "Wanna drink? 'Course ya do!"

United States By Susan Matteson • On 21 October 2008 • From Dolores USA

Excellent

I hope that return to zork comes out for windows xp, i'd love to play it again

Great Britain (UK) By padraig kelly • On 28 June 2008 • From n.ireland

Good

For all you folkes,who want to enjoy this old Zork games,en lots of other pre-XP games:Microsoft offers a FREE (yes:FREE)emulator on his website called Virtual PC.At the moment I'm playing Zork Grand Inquisitor and it works like dream!Just install VirtualPC in Windows XP,and run it.Then,in Virtual PC you install W98,or W95,preferibly on its own partition(with lots of room for your old games as well),and start it.When you are in W98 you can install your Zork game,any other old game,and of course all kinds of other old software that only runs under this older systems.After exitting the game you can close W98,and you're back in Windows XP.Much better than Dosbox or any other emulater I've tried,and did not get to work! Greetings and have fun!!!

Netherlands By Henk Noordhuizen • On 10 January 2008 • From Bergen op Zoom-The Netherlands (Holland)

Very Good

I have gotten the game to work with dosbox, it is a great game, but all of a sudden it froze and continues to freeze, when I ask the mayor to read the joke book. I know I will need that but I can't figure out how to get around that, I have windows XP and dosbox 0.70 but .71 doesn't say it fixed my game, maybe I will try it but any help would be greatly appriciated

United States By Joe • On 31 July 2007 • From indianapolis,IN
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