Zork Zero includes a mini-game to play Double Fanucci against the jester. Double Fanucci is a fictional card game mentioned throughout the Zork series. As the in-game Encyclopedia Frobozzica describes it, Legend has it that Double Fanucci (or Fannucci) was invented by the deposed Zilbo III in the late seventh century. Legends of Zork; Compilations and adaptations Edit. Among the games bundled in The Lost Treasures of Infocom, published in 1991 by Activision under the Infocom brand, were the original Zork trilogy, the Enchanter trilogy, Beyond Zork and Zork Zero.

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You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

>open mailbox
Opening the small mailbox reveals a leaflet.

>get leaflet
Taken.

>read leaflet

Zork was one of the earliest works of Interactive Fiction, written in 1977-79 by Tim Anderson, Marc Blanc, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling. In 1980, the game was split into three parts for home computers and sold on giant B: floppy disks (remember those?), where it became an immediate success, launching game publisher Infocom, and was followed by no less than twelve sequels.

Most of the series takes place in The Great Underground Empire.

At the bottom of the leaflet is a list of games in the series.

>read list
The Zork series consists of:

• Mainframe pre-original
  • Dungeon (1977-1979, noncommercial)
• The Original Trilogy
  • Zork I: The Great Underground Empire (1980)
  • Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz (1981)
  • Zork III: The Dungeon Master (1982)
• The Enchanter Trilogy
  • Enchanter (1983)
  • Sorcerer (1984)
  • Spellbreaker (1985)
• Wishbringer (1985)
• Beyond Zork (1987) (adds RPG Elements)
• Zork Zero (1988)
• Zork: The Undiscovered Underground (Activision, 1997)
• The Zork Quest 'Interactive Comics'
  • Zork Quest I: Assault on Egreth Castle (1988)
  • Zork Quest II: The Crystal of Doom (1989)
• Graphical Games
  • Return to Zork (Activision, 1993)
  • Zork Nemesis (Activision, 1996)
  • Zork: Grand Inquisitor (Activision, 1997)
  • Legends of Zork, an MMORPG (Now closed) (2009)

Four novels set in the world of Zork also exist: The Zork Chronicles by George Alec Effinger, Enchanter and The Lost City of Zork by Robin W. Bailey, and Wishbringer by Craig Shaw Gardner. As well as four Choose Your Own Adventure-style books, The Forces of Krill, The Malifestro Quest, The Cavern of Doom, and Conquest at Quendor.

A bag of tropes is nearby.
>examine tropes
Which tropes do you mean, the red ones or the blue ones?
>x all

• Acme Products: The many, many subsidiaries of FrobozzCo International
• Affectionate Parody: Pork 1: The Great Underground Sewer System and its sequel Pork 2: The Gizzard of Showbiz.
• Arc Number: 69,105
• Author Avatar: The Implementors in Beyond Zork
• Auto Cannibalism: The command 'eat self' returns the message 'Autocannibalism is not the answer.'
• Back from the Dead and Death Is Cheap: You; most of the games have a mechanism for bringing the player character back to life, and in Sorcerer dying actually simplifies a certain puzzle.
  • Although dying made some of the games unwinnable - Zork I, for example. You lose 10 points for dying, and can only complete the game by getting all 350 points.
• Control Room Puzzle: Subverted in Zork: Grand Inquisitor. The puzzle was impossible to solve unless you used a certain spell in addition to pushing buttons.
• Controllable Helplessness: In Sorcerer it is possible for the PC to end up in the Chamber of Living Death. There, the PC will be horribly torn apart and devoured by hideous parasites, only to not die but regenerate, over and over again, being unable to do anything about it because 'Your agony is too great to concentrate on such an action'.
• Darker and Edgier: Zork Nemesis, which abandons almost all pretenses of comedy and light satire in favor of Gothic horror.
  • The Enchanter Trilogy, too, where you're thwarting the plans of some flavor of Evil Overlord instead of just searching for treasure in a cave and getting rid of a senile wizard along the way.
  • Zork III had a much darker and more serious tone than the previous two games.
• Darkness Equals Death: 'You are likely to be eaten by a grue.'
• Death Is Cheap: At least it is in the gamebooks, where if you die you're given a chance to go back and try again. Unless you fell for one of the cheater traps.
• Dolled-Up Installment: Zork Nemesis was clearly not originally intended to be set in the Zork universe
• Drop in Nemesis: 'Oh, no! A lurking grue slithered into the room and devoured you!'
• Feelies: Like all Infocom games, all the text-based Zork games came with several feelies. Almost all were essential for completing their respective game.
  • ..other than the original trilogy, which predated Infocom adding feelies.
• Featureless Protagonist: Former Trope Namer.
• Fox Chicken Grain Puzzle: In Zork Zero.
• Gaiden Game: Wishbringer
• The Ghost: Grues. You never see what they look like since they only reside in total darkness.
• Global Currency: Zorkmids
• Guide Dang It: Some of the puzzles were ridiculous! For example, in Zork Zero a wizard casts a hunger spell on you which will eventually kill you unless you eat something, but the only food in the game is a granola bar (which is bird food). The solution? Turn yourself into a flamingo! And even THAT was absurdly difficult!
  • Notably, the Lighter and Softer and easier game Wishbringer has a bad one: the can with the rattlesnake has a false bottom which contains Wishbringer. The only hint is the item rattling even after it's opened, and considering that you likely dropped it after using it the first time, you're not likely to notice.
  • Spellbreaker was so hard the developers actually apologized and admitted most people would have to use a hint book to finish it.
• Have a Nice Death: Suicide in text games is a wholesome and entertaining pastime.
• Hello, Sailor!: A recurring Catch Phrase in the first several games.
• Hell Seeker: The backstory has the legend of Saint Yoruk, who travelled to Hades to meet with the Devil and learn the secrets of magic from him. When Yoruk died, his soul went to heaven, but as he'd gotten used to Hades, he fought his way back there.
• Hostage for Macguffin: Wishbringer, subverted, the hostageis the MacGuffin.
• Lighter and Softer: Wishbringer, sort of; it's aimed at kids and beginners.
• The Magic Goes Away: Sets off the plot of Spellbreaker and Beyond Zork, the former starting with your spellbook.
• The Many Deaths of You: Zork probably pioneered this trope in computer games.
• The Maze: At least once per game in the text-based games, though only the first game really has straight examples.
• Methuselah Syndrome: Many characters, justified or otherwise: Dalboz and Yannick, Lucy Flathead, Zylon the Aged, and Antharia Jack.
• Mythology Gag: In various games, you can see the exploits of the player character in a previous game and either travel there or bring the character to you.
• No Fair Cheating: Most of the interactive Zork books had a selection that asked for an item that doesn't exist and called you out for cheating if you went for it.
• No Name Given: Not only is the AFGNCAAP player nameless, there's also a 'lean and hungry gentleman' in the first game who has no name, and needs none.
  • The hint guide identifies the 'lean and hungry gentleman' as 'The Thief'. Still fits the trope, though.
• Nonstandard Game Over: If you mess up in the endgames of the Enchanter Trilogy, you can get a negative score and the title 'Menace to Society' for unleashing a horror upon the world.
• Nothing Is Scarier: 'It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.'
• Percussive Maintenance: The 'impact revitalisation' that the lamp has undergone in 'Zork: The Undiscovered Underground'.
• President Evil (Lord Dimwit Flathead the Excessive)
• Schizo-Tech: Zork technology is roughly WWII level, augmented by magic.
• Series Mascot: Grues.
• Stable Time Loop: One in Sorcerer and two interlinked loops in Spellbreaker.
• Stock Puzzle: Nearly all of them, at one point or another.
• Stolen Good, Returned Better: One of the treasures you find is a golden egg.. but if you let the thief steal it, when you find his lair later, you find that the egg has been opened, and it contains a golden singing bird -- much more valuable!
• Text Parser: See You Can't Get Ye Flask.
• To Hell and Back: Zork I, Zork Grand Inquisitor
• Unwitting Pawn: You, in Spellbreaker
• The Verse: In addition to the main games, the Zork universe contained Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, and Wishbringer. There are also a couple of hints that The Lurking Horror, another Infocom game, may also take place in the same universe, but nothing concrete.
• With This Herring: In Enchanter, you are a novice sent to kill Krill with almost no spells to start with. Gets a Hand Wave that Krill would detect a more powerful mage and raise appropriate defenses.
  • Also, there is a prophecy saying that this is the only method that has a chance of working.
• You Can't Get Ye Flask: The Ur Example.

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Westwood Studios, Inc. Was an American, based in.

It was founded by and in 1985 as Westwood Associates and was renamed Westwood Studios when it merged with (later Virgin Interactive Entertainment) in 1992. The company was bought by alongside Virgin Interactive's North American operations in 1998.

In January 2003, it was announced that Westwood, alongside, would be merged into. The studio closed in March that year.Westwood is best known for developing, and genres. It was listed in for selling more than 10 million copies of worldwide. Early history and company nameand founded Westwood Studios in 1985.According to Louis Castle, the company was named after the 'entertainment meets professional' character of the.We really liked the 'entertainment meets professional' character of Westwood CA (in L.A.) and the attraction of the area to teens and young adults felt like the perfect fit for a new company specializing in entertainment software. Even back then we recognized that it took a team of people to make great products so we appended the 'Associates' to emphasize that aspect of product development.

We were not really sure if we could make a go at game development so the original name 'Westwood Associates' also gave us the ability to get into more traditional business software if necessary.The company's first projects consisted of contract work for companies like and (SSI), porting titles to systems like. Proceeds from contract work allowed the company to expand into designing its own games in-house. Their first original title was, a game developed for and released in 1988. They laid the foundations for the genre with the release of game, one of the more literal translations of the classic tabletop game.Later success and acquisition by Virgin GamesOne of the company's first great successes was (1991), a real-time based on the license, developed for SSI. Other publishers of early Westwood games included. Their company was eventually acquired by in 1992.The company in the late 1980s was known for, but by 1993 it had so improved that, reported, 'many publishers would assure us that a project was going to be completed on time because Westwood was doing it'. The magazine added that it 'not only has a solid reputation for getting product out on time, but a reputation for good product', citing Eye of the Beholder, and as examples.

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By then Westwood had about 50 employees, including up to 20 artists. Other well-known Westwood titles from the early 1990s include and Westwood's greatest commercial success, the 1995 real-time strategy game.

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At the time, Westwood games had a 5% to 6% share of the PC game market, especially the franchise was considered very valuable. The 50,000 square foot building in Las Vegas included motion capture facilities, comfortable offices and was considered a showcase for the industry. According to Westwood Studios designer and programmer, Electronic Arts did not interfere with Westwood's operations primarily due to Westwood co-founder Brett Sperry's efforts in keeping the corporate cultures of the two companies separate, but eventually Westwood succumbed to wishes that every game had to be a hit.The last games and didn't meet expectations of the publisher. In January 2003, EA announced their intent to close Westwood, as well as, and merge them into as part of a consolidation plan. This move included 'significant layoffs' for Westwood, which at the time employed 100 people, while the remaining people were given the option to transfer to the Los Angeles studio or EA's headquarters.

Most employees were let go by January 31, while some staff stayed with Westwood transitionally until it was fully closed on March 31, 2003. Some formed in April 2003, while another three (Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic) formed a called Jet Set Games in 2008, both based in.

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