The year was 1979, Jimmy Carter was President of the United States, disco reigned supreme with The Bee Gees and Donna Summer, and Infocom a gaming company was founded by a few MIT geeks. Infocom would later release one of the earliest gaming hits called Zork for the Commodore 64, Apple II, and Atari. Zork was one of the first truly interactive games created, a text-based game you had to actually type out what you wanted to do - how things have changed.

Now you can be nostalgic and enjoy the Zork game on your Blackberry, thanks to the program ZeeME and Craig Setera. Although substantially smaller than the full game, it contains all the memorable bits including the many novel creatures and objects like the grues and zorkminds.

Now I have something that I can do during the long hours in the maternity ward. "Honey, the contractions are 2 minutes apart now. Can you please hold my hand?" "Not now, sweetie, I am about to be eaten by a Grue!" Thinking about how that might end is almost enough to make me not download this game.....almost.

Link to the article on Blackberry Cool