Microsoft, Team Xbox, and Activision have done an interesting service to game preservation this week. The trio have compiled and made open source the entirety of the classic Zork text-based adventure ...

Microsoft open-sourced Zork I–III, adding classic text adventures to its recent releases. Zork began in 1977, split into three games and ran on the Z-Machine for cross-platform play. Play the classic ...

The classic Zork text adventure games have been made open source by Microsoft. The original trilogy, consisting of Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III, is now fully available for play, exploration, and ...

Despite launching way back in 2001, classic adventure game software, ScummVM, is still seeing updates. Yes, 2001 is “way back,” sorry. The latest update to kick off 2026 brings a whole host of ...

Back in the very early days of home computers, onscreen imagery was a bit rubbish so text-based adventure games ruled the gaming roost. The Ink Console is aiming to rekindle this retro vibe by ...