Z-Machine: Play Zork

UserLAnd Technologies

About this game

Z-Machine - makes playing classic Zork interactive fiction and graphical games possible and easy on Android devices.

Currently supports:
Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
Return to Zork

Z-Machine is not the games themselves and does not contain or require any ROMs to play.
Z-Machine simply provides an interface to the publicly available Internet Archive posting of the streaming version of the games found here:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_I_-_The_Great_Underground_Empire_1980
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_II_-_The_Wizard_of_Frobozz_1981
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_III_-_The_Dungeon_Master_1982
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Beyond_Zork_-_The_Coconut_of_Quendor_1987
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Zork_Zero_-_The_Revenge_of_Megaboz_1988
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Return_to_Zork

This requires internet to load the games, but does not use any data after that.

Ratings and reviews

I am a big fan of the Zork games, however I don't believe this app is fully developed and was not worth 2 dollars. Sometimes the game will stop allowing me to type anything if I touch the main screen of the game. Also the restore your save feature just tries to save the game again instead of restoring your already shared game. I hope that the developers fix these problems, and if so I would rate this a 4 or 5.

I like the idea but the execution needs some work. Frequently the keyboard would stop working. The only way I could get it to work was restarting the app which meant losing my progress:( could use some word wrapping as well so you can bump up the font size. I think $2 may be too much if all that is being provided is a link to an archive page. The app should offer more features to justify the price.

This was the very first computer game I played, on an Apple II in 1985. After that came Spy vs Spy, Spy Hunter, Swashbuckler and a few I no longer remember the name of.......this is a faithful and well done version of a classic that turned many of us into gamers. Of course the Atari 2600 we had helped too!

What’s new

Add ability to play additional games:
Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
Zork III: The Dungeon Master
Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
Return to Zork