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		0xdeadbeefbabe on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zork and the Z-Machine: Bringing the Mainframe to ... Not the OP, but Zork was easy to put down and pick up later, and it wasn't multiplayer. It's the comparison that ignores something really interesting.

reaperducer on May 22, 2019 [–]

Also not the OP, but the OP is probably talking about its popularity and novelty.

Also, Zork wasn't easy to put down and pick up later.

I was also multi-player in a different way. Instead of being competitive multi-player, it was cooperative multi-player, as in you had friends over and you'd solve it together.

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