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Title -  Zork 1
Japanese Title - ゾーク・ワン
Developer - Shoeisha

Catalogue No. - T-21502G

Type - Adventure

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The fantastic Zork 1 and 2 only got a Japanese release for the Saturn which is very odd when you consider how popular they were on the PC in the west.  Now I know that you are all wondering, "How you can play Zork on the Saturn without a keyboard?"  Well the Saturn does have a keyboard but this Saturn version of Zork doesn't make use of it.  Great planning there !  Anyway, you are still able to ask questions by grabbing bits of text from the bottom of the screen then pasting it in to the question area.  This actually works out very well.  Unfortunately it's 100% Japanese without a hint of English making it impossible to play if you don't know Japanese.

As far as conversions go this Saturn game is actually pretty good.  It doesn't run in a high resolution (although possible) so everything looks a bit more chunky than the original game but apart from that it seems pretty much intact.