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'''ZZT''' is an action-adventure video game released by [[Tim Sweeney]] under [[Potomac Computer Systems]] (later [[Epic MegaGames]]) on January 15th, 1991<ref name="ZZTNewsletterJan91">Sweeney, Tim. "ZZT Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 1, January-July 1991".</ref>. It received multiple official updates, the final one being [[ZZT 3.2]], as well as a sequel - [[Super ZZT]].

ZZT was originally distributed in a shareware model, with the first game world in the official series, [[Town of ZZT]], being available without charge, and additional game worlds ([[Caves of ZZT]], [[Dungeons of ZZT]], [[City of ZZT]]) purchasable via mail order. On October 10th, 1997<ref name="EpicWhatsNew1998">[https://web.archive.org/web/19980214165401/http://www.epicgames.com:80/whatsnew.htm News Update] on epicgames.com as of February 14th, 1998.</ref>, the full version of ZZT was made available at no cost, albeit without the source code due to it being lost in a system failure<ref name="EpicZZT1998">[https://web.archive.org/web/19980214170034/http://www.epicgames.com/zzt.htm ZZT] on epicgames.com as of February 14th, 1998.</ref>.  On March 15th, 2020, the release of the [[Reconstruction of ZZT]] effectively made the ZZT game engine, as well as its documentation and reverse-engineered binary-equivalent source code, available under the terms of the MIT license.

== Version history ==

The full number of ZZT versions made available to the public is not known, as registered copies of ZZT would often include silently added changes not made available in the shareware versions.

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Known ZZT builds
|-
! Version !! Compilation date !! Release date !! Notes
|-
| [[ZZT 2.0]] (Shareware) || December 26th, 1990 || January 15th, 1991<ref name="ZZTNewsletterJan91"/> ||
|-
| [[ZZT 2.0]] (Registered) || Unknown || January 15th, 1991<ref name="ZZTNewsletterJan91"/> || Registered copies only.
|-
| [[ZZT 3.0]] || Unknown || Unknown ||
|-
| [[ZZT 3.1 (September 1991)]] || September 14th, 1991 || Unknown || Registered copies only.
|-
| [[Worlds of ZZT 3.56]] || October 1st, 1991 || Unknown || Licensed by SoftDisk for On Disk Monthly #60.
|-
| [[ZZT 3.1]] || November 2nd, 1991 || Unknown || First release under Epic MegaGames.
|-
| [[ZZT 3.2 (March 1992)]] || March 9th, 1992 || Unknown || Registered copies only; included with ZZT's Revenge.
|-
| [[ZZT 3.2]] || May 21st, 1992 || Unknown || Final official build.
|}

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