Re: Xyzzy (or PLUGH)
Those were gleaned from Colossal Cave, but as "Zork bore about the same relationship to Adventure as the splashiest arcade games do to the little white light that bounced through the primitive Pong" (a quote from the Boston Globe, 1984) invoking 'XYZZY' or 'Plugh' probably didn't quite have the same effect. Or had different prerequisites before they actually worked.
Never played Zork, but I did play Colossal Cave on a DECSystem 10, via a modem, acoustic coupler and a portable hardcopy terminal. Later on my own PC under OS/2, and there's still a Linux version lurking in ~/advent/
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