Pull up a chair, children, and let me tell you a story. Long ago, we had these things called text-based adventure games. They were adventure games that-

Okay, okay. Some time ago, we had adventure games. They were point-and-click PC games that-

What are PC games? That’s it, get out of my den! I’m taking you little bastards out of my will!

Anyway, GOG.com just added the Zork Anthology to its library. The site calls this release the “most oldschool one in GOG history,” and I’m not sure I can argue. The earliest game, Zork, came out in 1980. The latest game, Zork Zero, came out in 1988. It was also the first one to have graphics. It also comes with 1983′s Planetfall, a sci-fi text adventure made by Steve Meretzky, who also made Zork Zero and Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Sadly, the later, graphical Zork games (Return to Zork through Zork Grand Inquisitor) are not part of the $6 bundle. Still, a buck each for six portals into the adventure games of the early 80s is a pretty great deal.