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* Zork Grand Inquisitor ( 1997, Activision, graphical )
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** Zork Grand Inquisitor ( 1997 )
In gaming culture, such a character was called Ageless, Faceless, Gender-Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventure Person, abbreviated as AFGNCAAP ( pronounced " afgan-cap "); a term that originated in Zork: Grand Inquisitor where it is used satirically to refer to the player.
* Zork: The Undiscovered Underground ( 1997, written by Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank ( original Infocom implementors ) and released by Activision to promote the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor )
Activision briefly offered free downloads of Zork I as part of the promotion of Zork: Nemesis, and Zork II and Zork III as part of the promotion for Zork Grand Inquisitor, as well as a new adventure: Zork: The Undiscovered Underground.
In 1997, he played the lead voice role in the video game Zork Grand Inquisitor, as Dalboz of Gurth.
) Finally, the modern-day game Zork: The Undiscovered Underground created as a promotion for Zork Grand Inquisitor featured an extended reference to a line in Zork III about " a whole convention of grues " in a certain location, by having the player infiltrate a literal grue convention, complete with lectures, entertainment and souvenirs.
Zork Grand Inquisitor added to grue trivia the idea of the game " Grue, Fire, Water ", a variant of Rock, Paper, Scissors wherein " Grue drinks water, water douses fire, and fire scares grue.
* Zork Grand Inquisitor
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Zork: Grand Inquisitor is a graphical adventure game, developed by Activision and released in 1997 for the IBM compatible PC and Macintosh ( by MacPlay ).
Zork Grand Inquisitor was one of the first computer games to include true closed captioning so that the hearing impaired could play without missing any of the sound effects and spoken dialog in the game.
The original release included a feelie poster with a timeline of the history of Zork up until the events of the game, with pictures and short descriptions of major events, including the backstory of some of the characters ; this encompasses all released Zork games except Return to Zork, which takes place 580 years after Grand Inquisitor.
Much of the humor in Zork Grand Inquisitor stems from the ludicrous Inquisition policies and propaganda.
Zork Grand Inquisitor is set after the events of Zork: Nemesis and before Return to Zork.
Zork and 1997
** Zork: The Undiscovered Underground ( 1997, Michael Berlyn and Marc Blank )
* Zork Special Edition ( 1997 ; contained Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero, Return to Zork, Zork: Nemesis, and Planetfall )
: 1997: Zork Nemesis
* Zork Grand Inquisitor ( 1997 ) ( Windows )
The game was released by Activision on August 28, 1997 for free to coincide with the release of Zork Grand Inquisitor.
He also portrayed Chief Undersecretary Wartle in the graphical adventure game Zork: Grand Inquisitor in 1997.
Marc returned to text adventures in 1997 when Activision producer Eddie Dombrower asked Blank and Berlyn to create a small promotional game, Zork: The Undiscovered Underground as promotion for the release of Activision's graphical game Zork: Grand Inquisitor.
Zork and Activision
Activision finally shut down the Infocom division in 1989, although they released some titles in the 1990s under the Infocom Zork brand.
Zork made a cameo appearance as an easter egg in Activision and Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops.
* Return to Zork ( 1993, Infocom / Activision, graphical )
* The Philosopher's Stone ( Activision, unfinished text prequel to Zork Nemesis )
* Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands ( 1996, Activision, graphical )
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.
It was developed by Activision and was the final Zork game to be published under the Infocom label.
After the demise of Infocom, Activision became responsible for the Zork franchise.
* Return to Hotel New Zork-Mirror of the Activision promotional mini site ' Hotel New Zork ' ( as archived at the Internet Archive.
Zork Nemesis: The Forbidden Lands is a 1996 graphical adventure game developed by Zombie Studios and published / edited by Activision.
It is the eleventh game in the Zork series, and the first such title not to appear under the Infocom label ( Return to Zork was marketed with both the Infocom and Activision labels ).
Zork: Nemesis employed technology Activision dubbed " Z-Vision Surround Technology.
Zork and graphical
The modern graphical adventure games in the Zork series continue references to grues, with gurgling and growling grue sound effects audible in most shadowy or gloomy places and many points at which players can meet a gruesome death by wandering without light.
The first editions of the three graphical Zork games they produced each included printed feelies.
Unlike its predecessors, Zork Zero is a vast game, featuring a graphical interface with scene-based colours and borders, an interactive map, menus, an in-game hints system, an interactive Encyclopedia Frobozzica, and playable graphical mini-games.
A unique game for its time, Portal was one part text-driven adventure ( à la Zork or Planetfall ) but with a graphical interface.
Grand and Inquisitor
He was suspected and denounced, but nothing ensued until the establishment of the Inquisition in Rome in June 1542, at the instigation of Cardinal Giovanni Pietro Carafa, the first Grand Inquisitor, and later Pope Paul IV.
* The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch at The Grand Inquisitor
In 1487, Innocent confirmed Tomas de Torquemada as Grand Inquisitor of Spain.
Though often referred to in historical literature as Grand Inquisitors, the role was substantially different to the formally appointed Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
For the Rome premiere on 9 February 1868 at the Teatro Apollo, perhaps unsurprisingly, the Papal censor changed the Inquisitor into a Gran Cancelliere ( Grand Chancellor ) and the Monk / Emperor into a Solitario ( Recluse ).
A commonly anthologised story is The Grand Inquisitor by Dostoevsky from his long psychological novel The Brothers Karamazov and is told by one brother to another to explain, in part, his view on religion and morality.
The Grand Inquisitor, or General Inquisitor, was named by the Pope after being nominated by the king and he always came from within the royal family.
The Grand Inquisitor would later nominate other inquisitors.
In Portugal, the first Grand Inquisitor was Cardinal Henry, the king's brother ( who would later himself become King ).
*** Grand Inquisitor Commander, and Member of the Grand Tribunal
The Grand Tribunal is composed of members of the degree of Grand Inquisitor Commander ( a sub-degree of the VI °).
America has no Grand Inquisitor.
" Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor ".
( 1420 – September 16, 1498 ) was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the late 15th century.
As well as being the Grand Inquisitor, Torquemada was also the confessor to Isabella I of Castile.
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