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Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz is a fantasy interactive fiction game released in 1988 for MS-DOS. Developed and published by Infocom, Inc., it serves as a chronological prequel to the earlier Zork trilogy. The game presents its adventure through a text parser interface enhanced with graphical elements, including colored scene borders.

The player assumes the role of an unnamed adventurer tasked by King Wurb Flathead to lift a curse that has plagued the empire for ninety-four years. This curse was cast by Megaboz the Magnificent in retaliation for a massive statue built by the vain Lord Dimwit Flathead. The protagonist begins with an ancestral parchment that serves as a clue to the larger mystery. Progression is achieved by exploring locations, solving a wide variety of puzzles, and manipulating inventory items. The gameplay is structured around navigating the world through text commands to interact with objects, characters, and environments.

Key systems include an interactive map to track movement and an in-game hint feature to assist players. The game also incorporates the Encyclopedia Frobozzica, a reference work within its fiction. Alongside the traditional text adventure puzzles, Zork Zero integrates four distinct graphical mini-games, each based on established logic puzzle concepts. These elements combine to form an adventure focused on exploration and cerebral challenges.