Perhaps this is a stupid/contentious idea (partly because it somewhat kills the "spirit" of the original games), but there's a little part of me that would be interested in seeing the scene building parts of Zork piped into an image generation service to visualize the landscape that the game describes.

(the grue would obviously just a picture full of black, though some creepy eyes would be a nice touch)

It exists

https://dzlab.github.io/notebooks/flax/vision/diffusion/2023...