WTF?! A Zork game?! Just because it's a text adventure too? Yeah, I'll grab the next Tekken tomorrow as I purchase Street Fighter 4.
This is a terrible review and rating. This is one the best Infocom games and a complete classic in the genre, written by Dave Lebling. It even appeared under number 70 something in a list of IGN's 100 best games (in a 1995 issue of Next Generation magazine).
The game is friggin' creepy like only
http://parchment.googlecode.com/svn/...e/anchor.z8.js
was able to many years later.
But, yeah, I guess the geeky setting is not up to everyone's tastes. This is one of those college games, except with a Lovecraftian twist. Mood and settings excel at providing it.