(1957-    ) US Videogame designer (> Game Design), involved in various aspects of computer gaming from the early 1980s. He co-designed The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) with Douglas Adams. Solo titles include the Space Opera-flavoured Planetfall (1983) and its sequel; A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985); the enjoyably risqué Leather Goddesses of Phobos (1986) and its sequel; and the first Infocomics game, Lane Mastodon vs The Blubbermen (1988). Under the working name S Eric Meretzky he wrote a series of fantasy Gamebooks beginning with Zork: The Forces of Krill (1983) – Interactive Fiction based on the early computer Adventure game Zork (1977-1979), whose final sequel Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz (1988) Meretzky also designed. [DRL/JC]

Steven Eric Meretzky

born Yonkers, New York: 1 May 1957

died

works

series

Zork

• Zork: The Forces of Krill (New York: Tor, 1983) as by S Eric Meretzky [tie to the game: "A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book": pb/]
• Zork: The Malifestro Quest (New York: Tor, 1983) as by S Eric Meretzky [tie to the game: "A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book": pb/]
• Zork: The Cavern of Doom (New York: Tor, 1983) as by S Eric Meretzky [tie to the game: "A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book": pb/]
• Zork: Conquest at Quendor (New York: Tor, 1984) as by S Eric Meretzky [tie to the game: "A What-Do-I-Do-Now Book": pb/]

links

• Steve Meretzky

Previous versions of this entry

• 05/07/2010
• 20/12/2011
• 11/07/2012