Zork: Enter The Great Underground Empire 1980 Vintage Men's T-Shirt
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Zork is a text-based fantasy adventure game that originated in 1977, when a group of MIT programmers created the original version for the PDP-10 mainframe under the working title Dungeon. Unlike later computer games built around elaborate visuals, Zork featured no graphics at all, presenting its mysterious underground world entirely through written descriptions and functioning much like an interactive novel. Its creators later founded Infocom and divided the enormous original adventure into three commercial games: Zork I: The Great Underground Empire, Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz, and Zork III: The Dungeon Master, beginning with the release of Zork I in 1980. Players assume the role of an unnamed adventurer exploring the ruins and passages of the Great Underground Empire, entering typed commands to move, examine objects, collect treasures, solve puzzles, and confront various creatures and hazards. Famous for its sophisticated text parser, dry humor, elaborate puzzles, and memorable dangers—including the dreaded grue lurking in dark places—Zork became one of the defining games of the early personal-computer era and helped establish interactive fiction as a major genre.
Like all our designs, this one is treated with our signature ‘relic-ing’ process which includes our own secret recipe of hand-painted chipping, cracking, fading, and just the right touch of yellowing to ensure that it looks the part of a true vintage imprint.** We lay these works of art down on premium Bella+Canvas 3001 Unisex Jersey Short Sleeve Tees, one of the softest, best-wearing t-shirts available today, via state of the art direct to garment (DTG) printing which allows us to create a vintage effect that simply can’t be accomplished with other printing methods. In short, these shirts are everything you’ve dreamed of and more – it feels soft and lightweight with just the right amount of stretch, making it comfortable and flattering for both men and women.
- 100% combed and ring-spun cotton*
- Fabric weight: 4.2 oz (142 g/m2)
- 32 singles for a softer hand
- Dyed and cut in the USA
- Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
- Side-seamed construction
- Tear-away label
- Modern retail fit
- Runs true to size
Not sure what size is your best fit? We recommend taking one of your current t-shirts, laying it flat and measuring it. The measurements in the chart below are taken with the shirt laying on a flat surface. To get the length, measure from the high shoulder point down to the bottom of the shirt. To get the width, measure approximately 1-inch below the armhole, across the chest, from seam to seam. While our tees are all made using premium, pre-shrunk, ring-spun cotton, there can be some shrinkage depending on your personal wash and dry cycles. With that said, if you’re on the fence, we always suggest going up a size.

