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From: blasius@gmd.de (Volker Blasius)
Subject: Re: ZORK I in another game...?
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 23:51:16 GMT
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In article <1993Feb24.174426.18681@freenet.carleton.ca> 
    aa699@Freenet.carleton.ca (Michel Boucher) writes:

>Reading through COMPUTER GAMING WORLD (March 1993 - Number 104), I
>was surprised to find that ZORK I appears in another game, LEGEND's
>ERIC THE UNREADY.  Indeed, it appears that at one point the player
>stumbles upon a screen which "takes on the appearance of the original
>Zork".

Correct. I first thought I had stumbled upon a bug, because the screen 
cleared, the picture, the compass, and the word list disappeared, and I had 
blank screen telling me, "You are standing in front of a little white 
house. There is a mailbox here." (or whatever the correct text is). Then 
memories from auld lang syne rushed in...

>The game Eric the Unready is tongue in cheek...obviously :-)

Sure thing, all through!

Volker

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 *Origin: a twisty little maze of passages, all different (2:243/50.37)
