Recently, I had an inspiring discussion with fellow programmers, we were talking about interesting side projects/programs to quickly “try out” new programming language/job interview tasks. One that’s been mentioned was coding a Z-machine interpreter that’s capable of playing Zork I. The Z-machine is a virtual machine developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank, used for numerous Infocom text adventure games, most notably the Zork series. In all honesty, I’m probably a few years too young so didn’t get to play Zork when it was big (I did play old Sierra adventures back when you actually had to type commands, though, one of the the reasons I started to learn English was Police Quest I.