| Zork: Grand Inquisitor | |
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| Developer(s) | Activision[a] |
| Publisher(s) | Activision[b] |
| Director(s) | Laird M. Malamed |
| Producer(s) | Elizabeth Storz |
| Designer(s) | Margaret Stohl |
| Programmer(s) | Mason Deming Michael H. Douglas |
| Artist(s) | David Dalzell |
| Composer(s) | Mark Morgan John Beal |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh |
| Release | Windows Macintosh |
| Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Activision, and released for Windows in 1997; a second edition for Macintosh was released in 2001. The game is the twelfth in the Zork series, and builds upon both this and the Enchanter series of interactive fiction video games originally released by Infocom. The game's story focuses on the efforts of a salesperson who becomes involved in restoring magic to Zork while thwarting the plots of a tyrannical figure seeking to stop this. The game features the performances of Erick Avari, Michael McKean, Amy D. Jacobson, Marty Ingels, Earl Boen, Jordana Capra, Dirk Benedict, David Lander and Rip Taylor.
The game was a modest commercial success and received generally favorable reviews, many praising the game for returning to the roots of the series following Zork Nemesis. A promotional prequel titled Zork: The Undiscovered Underground was released with the game, written by one of the original creators of the series, alongside a poster portraying the chronology of the series.
- ^ Staff (November 4, 1997). "Now Shipping". PC Gamer. Archived from the original on February 18, 1998. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
"Activision's Zork Grand Inquisitor is being released to retail outlets this week." - ^ a b c Largent, Andy (October 22, 2001). "Zork Grand Inquisitor Shipping". Inside Mac Games. Retrieved June 26, 2024.
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