Zork III - The Dungeon Master
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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In the third game of the adventure game series  Zork, you are once again a nameless adventurer, only this time you won't travel through a beautiful magical land, but are immediately cast into a deep dungeon. Like in a dream, you hear a mysterious voice telling you that you have passed all the tests but one. When consciousness returns to you, you find yourself on the endless spiral of stairs, with only your trusty lantern near you... will you be able to survive the horrors of the Dungeon?

Like its predecessors, Zork III: The Dungeon Master is a text adventure game. You read descriptions of rooms and then interact with the game by typing commands. As all early Zork games, it is very easy to get stuck in the game, so you'll have to reload several times in order to find the correct way.

Trivia

As part of the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor, Activision released Zork III as freeware. (Currently the links to download the game are dead at activision.com, but the game is available at numerous fan sites.)

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(From The New Zork Times Vol.3 No.2 Spring 1984)

Some statistics about Zork 3:

Apparent number of rooms (those seen by the player): 105 
Number of rooms: 89 (The Royal Puzzle seems like 31 rooms, but internally it's actually just one room) 
Number of different ways to die: 30 
Number of words in vocabulary: 563 
Number of takeable objects: 23 

Zork III has a area where you can view "scenes" from Zork I, II and IV. IV became Enchanter, and the scene still survives.

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Description from the packaging:

Can you escape the Dungeon of the Underground Empire? It's the ultimate challenge... You against the Dungeon Master! Danger lurks at every turn! This incredible adventure is the most challenging Zork classic of them all!
Zork III: The Dungeon Master is the final test of your courage and wisdom. Your odyssey culminates in an encounter with the Dungeon Master himself, and your destiny hangs in the balance.

Features:
Average length of journey: 35-40 hours.
Language: Interlogic Machine Language.
Zorkian Vocabulary: 600+ words.
Understands complete sentences: Yes.
Command Options: Most in genre.
Multiple Save Feature: Yes.
Only the Interlogic prose series achieves this level of sophistication. The Zork Trilogy is designed to be experienced in the most realistic sense. And because the challenges change with every move you make, each time you re-enter Zork you'll face new intrigues.


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