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Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the worldwide release of Return to Zork, which shipped for Mac and MS-DOS on September 15, 1993.

The game modernized the Zork franchise by moving away from Infocom’s text-parser roots to a first-person, point-and-click graphical adventure; CD-ROM editions featured full-motion video and Redbook audio (one MS-DOS CD version required the RealMagic MPEG board to play in-game FMV).

Return to Zork was the last Zork title released under the Infocom label and became a commercial hit — shipping roughly one million copies by the mid-1990s — helping stabilize Activision after corporate turmoil.

Today marks the 28th anniversary of the full retail release of Shadow Warrior, the Build-engine first-person shooter by 3D Realms (published in retail form on September 12, 1997 after a shareware episode earlier that year). Originally released for MS-DOS and later ported to Mac, the game introduced the wisecracking protagonist Lo Wang and mixed fast FPS action with tongue-in-cheek, often controversial humor — a distinct part of the late-’90s PC shooter scene. Shadow Warrior

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On this day in 1991, Sierra On-Line released Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work for MS-DOS (as well as Amiga and Macintosh). This fifth entry in the iconic comedy adventure series continued the misadventures of Larry Laffer, blending adult humor, satire, and classic point-and-click gameplay.