User Summary West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. So begins one of the most seminal and famous computer games -- Zork I, the first game published by the interactive-fiction powerhouse Infocom. Zork I sold more than 400,000 copies and was widely admired for its advanced parser, excellent writing, and influential sense of humor. You have been eaten by a grue!