The game Return to Zork is part of the Zork video game series, which was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. The Zork series was a single-player adventure series defined by its fantastical setting and comedic writing, and though it was initially published by Infocom, by the time that Return to Zork was published in 1994, Infocom had merged with Activision.

The Return to Zork series centers on Michele Em's work with the 1994 game. The series includes interactive screenplays, scripts, game maps, copies of storyboard sketches, NPC dialogues, game design flowcharts, pre-Beta test instructions, promotional materials, and magazine articles related to the game. Of note is that this series maps out the development cycle of this game from the perspective of a writer. Also noteworthy is the inclusion of original promotion materials, as well as magazine articles written about the game by Michele Em herself. The documents in the "Dialogue flowchart binder" and the "Game documentation binder" folders arrived in binders. The archivist removed the materials from the binder for preservation purposes but maintained the original order.

The series includes documents from 1992 through 1994.