9:05, by Adam Cadre snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Adventureland, by Scott Adams snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) Wander through an enchanted realm and try to uncover the 13 lost treasures. There are wild animals and magical beings to reckon with as well as many other perils and mysteries. WARNING! The Z-Code conversion... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
Balances, by Graham Nelson snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (39 ratings) "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (45 ratings) Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Begscape, by Porpentine snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem |
Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
Border Zone, by Marc Blank snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,... |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (49 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings) "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank Average member rating: (60 ratings) Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, by Pete Austin and Joan Lamb snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) "Welcome to the second computer game to feature the contents of my diary - is there no such thing as privacy? Such is the price of fame I suppose. The aim of the game is to make me as popular as possible... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler Average member rating: (29 ratings) |
Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Average member rating: (34 ratings) Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
I-0, by Anonymous snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (158 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
Infidel, by Michael Berlyn snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
L: A Mathemagical Adventure, by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics co-ordinated by Richard Phillips, and including Derek Ball, Tony Corbett, David Rooke, Heather Scott, Alan Shaw, Margaret Stevens, Ruth Townsend, Jo Waddingham, Roger Waddingham, John Warwick, Alan Wigley, John Wood, and David Wooldridge. snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called Fractions and the Four Rules — 5000 Carefully Graded Problems. You are bored and the heat... |
Lancelot, by Christina Erskin, Joan Lamb, Neil Scrimgeour, Dicken Peeke, Nusarath Jahan, Mike Austin, Nick Austin, John Jones-Steele, and Mike Bryant Average member rating: (8 ratings) Lancelot recreates the tales of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as told in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur. Parts 1 and 2 follow Lancelot's arrival at Camelot, his rise to become the best... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (94 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (133 ratings) You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (118 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
The Price of Magik, by Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (12 ratings) The dying light of the Red Moon has been captured in a crystal by the magicians of Baskalos to act as the last repository of magik. Its guardian for many years has been Myglar, a wise and respected sorcerer.... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snowball, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton Average member rating: (10 ratings) You play Kim Kimberley, secret agent extraordinary. Your mission: to safeguard the interstar transport, Snowball 9, as a last resort following catastrophic accident or sabotage. Thus when your modified... |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Starcross, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (51 ratings) Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
Suspect, by Dave Lebling snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (104 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings) You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the... |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) "Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (79 ratings) An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky snickerdoddle's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |