You invented Zork? I grew up playing Infocom’s version on my C64 when I was a kid. And I have an authentic Zorkmid I got on eBay in the ‘90s, which I think has turned out to be a better investment than gold.
Are you one of these 4 creators or some other contributor not mentioned here?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
“You invented Zork?”
No,no, no. Nothing so grand.
I was one of the many MIT students who expanded on “Collosal Cave” (or whatever it was). I put in the map of a chunk of the “Infinite Corridor” (a hallway that ran through several buildings at MIT) into it.
That game did, indeed, become Zork.
But I wasn’t one of the main people, by any sort of long shot.
(I was/am an aeronautical engineer, not a computer guy.)