{"id":9459,"date":"2011-01-18T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"good-old-games-adds-police-quest-zork-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9459-good-old-games-adds-police-quest-zork-series","title":{"rendered":"Good Old Games adds Police Quest, Zork series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Good Old Games\">Good Old Games<\/a>, the prominent purveyor of playable PC products of the past, has gathered some Activision classics to add to its ever-growing catalog. The consummate crime-fighting adventure series, Police Quest and the landmark text adventures of the Zork series are among a range of Activision titles coming to GOG.com in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Gamers looking to unleash their inner detective need look no further than GOG.com&rsquo;s bundle of Police Quest 1, 2, 3 and 4, available now for US$9.99 (&plusmn;R68). In Police Quest 1 through 3 players step into the shoes of officer-turned-detective-turned-undercover-officer, Sonny Bonds, as he delves deep into the criminal underworld to solve a series of crimes in the fictional town of Lytton. The fourth installment, Police Quest: Open Season has players tracking down a serial murderer in Los Angeles in a story packed with mature themes uncommon in games of its time.<\/p>\n<p>Zork Anthology is another for adventure fans, with six classic text adventures dating as far back as the 80s &#8211; the first five Zork games, as well as Planetfall &#8211; for the price of one. The original Zork, developed by a group at MIT who went on to found Infocom, was one of the very first interactive, story-driven computer games, and laid the groundwork for the adventure genre. Zork Anthology is now available on GOG.com for US$5.99 (&plusmn;R41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOG.com revives two classic adventure game series, releasing Police Quest and Zork<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}