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

To Ernest petti

If the mistake you are talking about in your review, that there is no work around for is the bonding plant dieing, if you pull the plant out instead of digging it up.
There is away to get a new one, the clue is in the mayors filing cabinet in the plants folder.

United States By murray • On 03 June 2007 • From Nelson, New Zealand

Excellent

I have windows XP. I just downloading a dos emulator from the internet for the game to work. when I put the emulator on my system, it comes up DOS BOX. it works perfect now, no crashs. this should work if you have windows xp as the game needs dos to be able to work. it also worked on windows vista but the other zork games (nemesis & grand inquisitor) didnt work at all on vista (I sent that system back!!). once you load the dos emulator, I put a short cut on my desk top & then I loaded return to zork. this is how I loaded it:
yes to install project fi
used default directory
DONT launch from windows
yes to change settings now
choose creative labs blaster
choose: 220, 5, 1(enter after each)
creative labs sound blaster
(enter) for additional sys options
choose CD rom drive
NO to change settings now
view read.me? NO
(enter) back to windows 95

after that, click on dos emulator & I typed:
mount c c:\rtz-cd\
c:
mount d d:\ (my cd rom drive)
rtz (the game should start)

United States By Nicole • On 20 April 2007 • From Adelanto, USA

Very Good

Yes Mark, go on? How DID you do it?

Mu stupid CDversion of RtZ just keeps crashing at one point... Anyway, I managed to complete it once, but my score was smthng like 200. Did u cheat somehow ;D ???

Finland By catter • On 12 April 2007 • From fin

Excellent

My high score is 325 out of 225. Serious. Ya wanna know how I did it?

Australia By Mark • On 02 April 2007 • From T.I. Qld. Aus.

I loved the Zork games but have been able to play return to zork as my pc wont load it, this is very annoying. Any ideas why it does this?

Great Britain (UK) By viki • On 26 December 2006 • From Somewhere

Excellent

I have done absoultely everything but made the invisibility potion. I have put the water from flood control dam 3 into the flask, but it wont let me combine it with the guano! help plz!

Australia By Tim • On 17 July 2006 • From Brisbane, Australia

Excellent

I watched my brother play this game when I was real young and I recently found the the old cd for it. I really want to play it, but it seems my computer is too fast. The opening scene flies by and you can't hear any of the dialogue from the wizard guy. Is there anyway to fix this?

United States By Jack • On 01 July 2006 • From Athens

help
Can someone please help me, I've got the old cd rom of return to zork, but somehow i can't play it on my computer. Not in my windows 98 nor in the ms dos.
Anyone here who has the same problem? Help me, I want to play it!

Finland By Scamper • On 24 April 2006 • From Helsinki,Finland

I also panicked, felt stymied at the entrance to Chuckle's comedy club, and re-started RTZ from scratch after I had been wandering thru the GUE with a dead bonding plant.
Then after I finished the game, I experimented. It turned out, at least on the CD-ROM version, that I could eat or burn the dead plant, WANDER AROUND for about 20 moves, and then a new live bonding plant would appear at the base of the sign at the Mountain Pass. There were several other recovery factors in RTZ.
There was one linear puzzle with no recovery factor, though the error and consequence were much closer together. If I went down the Frigid River without the love note from Ben, I was permanently stuck in Witch Itah's hut. However, I would only have to restore to a recently saved game to recover, rather than re-starting the game.
S.E.

By Steve E • On 27 April 2002 • From Somewhere

Fantastically helpful site - I was wrestling with Return to Zork, having loved playing the original text only Zork, and was so happy and relieved to find hints on completion. Other games sites seem to
regard Zork as too old fashioned, but I think it's witty and challenging. I like the attitude in your reviews, the way you make the distinction between adventure gaming and shoot em ups! I came to adventure
gaming very recently, and had avoided it before because I had assumed it would be all bloodshed and shooting - but was lucky enough to pick Legacy of Time, the Journeyman Project as my first venture into gaming.
I feel very much in sympathy with your site, and it will become a regular site for me.

Congratulations!

Caroline

By Caroline Gardiner • On 06 August 2000 • From London
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