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Built by programmers out of the MIT computing world, Zork reached home machines with a parser that understood far more than its competitors did, and it turned careful puzzle writing into a commercial product.
Text adventures gave early personal computers a genre suited to their limits, since imagination cost no memory. Infocom's insistence on prose quality and forgiving input raised expectations for how a program should talk to a person, and it showed that a software house could build a reputation on writing rather than technology.
