Description: Mini-Zork?? Even a seasoned Infocom collector might ask "What the heck is Mini-Zork??" In short, it's a modified (condensed) version of Zork that was published on a Commodore 64 cassette tape and distributed for free with the Nov. 1990 issue of UK's Zzap!64 magazine. A more detailed description from MobyGames is copied below. Because of its extremely limited distribution, and because most copies were probably discarded, it is EXCEPTIONALLY RARE. So, despite its humble appearance, this is a very, very special cassette! As a bonus, the tape also contains a few other games/demos... "Rimrunner", "SWIV", and "Thunderforce". Condition Notes In good physical condition but untested. A previous owner penned in the areas where the printing was lifted by the adhesive that held the tape on the magazine. From MobyGames: Mini-Zork was an attempt by Infocom to create a scaled-down cassette-tape version of Zork: The Great Underground Empire that could be fully-contained with the severely-limited RAM of early-80s 8-bit personal computers that only have a cassette-tape drive for their external storage. Although this project may have originally been intended for a British-manufactured personal computer (such as the Amstrad CPC464 that was released in 1984), the only widely-known release of Mini-Zork is a Zzap!64 Megatape (Commodore software collection) that was sold in the UK for £9.99 in 1989 (and perhaps as early as 1988), and then bundled with a 1990 Zzap!64 magazine issue as a freebie. There are rumors that other commercial distributions may have occurred, but the scant historical evidence that's available on the Internet suggests that Mini-Zork was probably only ever (officially) distributed as a free demo. Nevertheless, Mini-Zork has the exalted distinction of being the only Infocom game to have ever been released on a cassette tape (rather than a floppy disk). Shipping This item will be packed and shipped with the utmost care, fully insured. International customers please note that whatever shipping charge you see is completely from eBay. I do not get ANY of it and cannot control those fees. Please see my other listings for more titles from Infocom, Sierra, LucasArts, Legend, Broderbund, etc...
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Platform: Commodore 64
Publisher: Infocom
Genre: Role Playing
Game Name: Mini-Zork
