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Or GOG if you prefer: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_zork_anthology

I keep hoping that now that Microsoft owns all of Infocom's legacy they'll do some more interesting packs/anthologies again.

Also, it's not the kind of "platform seller, AAA modern stuff" that Xbox Game Pass is known for, but I still like to hope that if some of these games showed up on Xbox Game Pass for PC they'd accidentally blow up on Twitch somewhat the way old PBS shows like Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood did. Get a bunch of people playing old classic games they'd never think to try by making them "What's New on Game Pass" notable.



How do you play Zork on Xbox? Lots of typing using the on screen keyboard? Auto fill for certain things?


That is why I suggested to focus on the "for PC" part of Xbox Game Pass. (Microsoft's sometimes confusing way of naming things strikes again.)

Though, Xbox speech-to-text isn't awful, would be a wild way to play Zork. And also, the Xbox does support connecting any USB keyboard.


Thanks! I was a little confused. There's nothing that makes using Xbox for text games to be impossible...just seems non-optimal lol.




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