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Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington
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Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
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Adventure 200, by C. J. Coombs
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Adventure Castle, by Dave Dunfield
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Adventure Quest, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin
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Adventure Quest is a full scale adventure game with 225 individually described locations. You will have to solve a very large number of problems on your journey to the Black Tower and (perhaps) victory. To...

Adventureland, by Scott Adams
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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...

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
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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!
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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...

Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington
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The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield
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You are a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have hitched a ride on a...

Birmingham IV, by Peter Emery
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A solitary scholar, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself, ventures abroad in a dream state. He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark forests, steeped in the blood of Celt, Saxon,...

Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay
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Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry.

Captivity, by Jim Aikin
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Locked in a tower in a castle by an evil duke — how annoying. And you’re not even a princess! Duke Esteban is demanding an outrageous ransom of your well-born and well-meaning but cash-strapped parents,...

Castle Amnos, by John Evans
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""crux ('kr&ks, 'kruks) Function: noun Etymology: Latin cruc-, crux cross, torture 1 : a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question 2 : an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an...

Castle Blackstar, by Mark Sheppard, Andrew Cummins, Geoff Richardson
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Castle Elsinore, by Charles A. Crayne, Dian Crayne
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The Castle of Hornadette, by Stephen J. Konig
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Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth
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Castle Ralf, by Doug Clutter and Steve Vance
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Castlequest, by Michael S. Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt
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This game, previously thought lost, has been recovered from the US Copyright Office. Late 1980 Holtzman made a print-out of the source code and submitted it to USCO. During 2020 Kershenblatt starts a USCO...
Cave of Wonders, by Campbell Wild
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It had been your first trip to Grandads for a long time. Unfortunately, this time was to work. Grandad was moving house, and needed your help to move all his stuff. You were busy clearing out the loft when...
Chimaera, by Chris Newall
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Christminster, by Gareth Rees
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"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...
Crobe, by Jonathan Partington
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Crypt, by Steve Herring
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Crystal Cave, by Kevin O'Gorman
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Crystal Caverns, by Dan Kitchen
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Somewhere beneath the crumbling old Victorian mansion lie gold, rubies, a rare and priceless painting... treasure enough to start your blood pounding! Whoever put them here was diabolical, for you may find...

Curses, by Graham Nelson
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"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...

The Dark Tower, by Jack Lockerby
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Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin
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Complete our Middle Earth Trilogy. The Demon has been defeated and his Dark Tower cast down. But its dangerous remain, filled with hoarded treasure and magic. There are just two snags. Other creatures want...

Enemies, by Andy Phillips
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"It will forever remain one of life's mysteries: why should a simple man like yourself get on the wrong side of anybody? You are, after all, just a typical accountant. A little sideline romance with the...

Ferret, by [email protected]
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A game inspired by Zork, written in the 1980s in PL/I for Data General mini-computers, and ported to IBM Visual Age PL/I for Windows. Ferret is a Windows text mode executable.

Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom
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Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself...

First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time...

A Flustered Duck, by Jim Aikin
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You play as Elliott, a pig-boy. It starts when Granny Grabby orders you to get Mabel the duck down from the roof. You try, but a series of unfortunate events ensue ending with Mabel swallowing the diamond...

Frustration, by Jim MacBrayne
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Chasing after a wayward shopping list given to you by your Aunt Maud, you accidentally plummet down an open manhole. What adventures await you at the other end? [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List...

Fyleet, by Jonathan Partington
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Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam
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As a local historian, you had been allowed into the great library of Karoway Manor. There between the pages of an ancient book you found a seemingly much older sheet of paper. it told of a stone gateway to...

Gorm, by Chris Allen
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A large puzzlefest across three time zones to discover an antidote which can change the course of history. Originally written for a cover disc bundled with Acorn Archimedes World in October 1994. The game...

The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles
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Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of...

HAUNT, by John Laird
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Heist, by Andy Phillips
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Your unloved uncle has died. At his funeral, you are given a curious note from him, asking you to finish his dream for him. But what is it he wants you to do? One thing is clear: it won't be easy. The choice...
The Hermit's Secret, by Dian Crayne
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[From the in-game blurb...] A hermit lives somewhere around here, at least that's what the local people say. Rumor has it that he's been guarding something - probably a fortune in gold and jewels - that will...
Heroine's Mantle, by Andy Phillips
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Hezarin, by Alex Shipp and Steve Tinney
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The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne
The consequences to be faced if you fail in your mission are dire indeed. Are you up to the challenge? [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2] Originally published as a HiSoft BASIC game for...
Humbug, by Graham Cluley
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You, Sidney Widdershins, are sent to your Grandad’s for the school holidays. * Why is Jasper the dentist so desperate that Grandad should sell the manor? * Why has Grandad hidden a time machine in the...

Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne
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Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical...

The Isle of the Cult, by Rune Berg
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Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
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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...

Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater
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Every silver lining has a cloud... JUST WHEN A MAN THINKS HIS LUCK IS RUNNING OUT... ... things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being....

Kingdom of Hamil, by Jonathan Partington
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Labyrinths of LaCoshe, by Anonymous

LAND, by Darren Higgs
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LAND is a single-player BBC Micro port of a swords-and-sorcery type MUD that ran on the DEC mainframe computer at the University of Essex in the 1980s and 90s. The mainframe version of LAND was written by...

The Light: Shelby's Addendum, by Colm McCarthy
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You play as Maurice L. Shelby, a laboratory apprentice employed by Commission Research Station 12B. The station is rather important: it houses one of several beacons placed around the world that generate the...
Lost, by Jeffrey Hersh
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While searching for riches in the forest, you come across a spaceship which takes you to different places and times. Difficult, with multiple mazes, but rather engrossing....

The Lost Kingdom of Zkul, by Jon Malone and Allan Black
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Originally published by Talent Computer Systems for the Atari ST and Sinclair QL computers, this game proved very popular, with a maze which changed each time that you re-started the game. The game remains...

Lost New York, by Neil deMause
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"They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead...

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
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"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

Merlin's Golden Trove, by John Olsen
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Mirror of Khoronz, by Derek Haslam
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Many years have passed since you went on the quest for the Talisman of Khoronz, a journey which led beyond the confines of your own space and time to the enchanted isle of Karos. The adventure was fraught...

Monster Rally, by Charles A. Crayne, Dian Crayne
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The quaint little village of Arnheim is near here. It has long been the site of strange happenings and stranger rumours. The people are usually friendly, but they have an odd habit of looking over their...

Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington
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The forests of Murdac are some of the oldest, as well as the wildest and most isolated, in the whole land. Also they don't take kindly to intruders -- although living on the outermost fringes of the great...

Mordon's Quest, by Peter Moreland, Peter Donne, and John Jones-Steele
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This adventure takes place over many thousands of years, and it is your quest to save the universe from destruction. In the beginning, you find yourself in a curiously familiar house, looking for a way out....

Mortlake Manor, by Ben Chenoweth
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Rumour has it that a valuable treasure has been hidden somewhere in Mortlake Manor. It is your task to find the treasure. However, you must be careful; rumour also says the place is haunted... Mortlake Manor...

Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret, by Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
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Walking home from school is mostly okay, except for one big problem: Every day you have to pass right by Mrs. Pepper's house. She may not actually be a witch, but she sure acts like one. And now she's stolen...
The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
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"In the event of my disappearance, my legacy shall not be distributed until every room in my museum has been searched in case I can be located." --Last Will and Testament, E. Mulldoon.
Mystery Mansion, by Bill Wolpert
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The New Castle, by Dan Gahlinger
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The New Castle was first written by: Barry Wilks on a VAX/VMS Computer System at the University of Western Ontario, back sometime around 1983. I was there as a student/staff there at the time! Anyone from...

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin
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On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts
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"Visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm for the weekend is not your idea of a good time. Mom has told you countless stories about the great adventures she had growing up there. Days spent feeding the...

Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson
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The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin
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Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas...

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts
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The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten...

The Phantom's Revenge, by Dian Crayne
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Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel
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Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "BrandX". When released by Acornsoft for the BBC B microcomputer, it was renamed to "Philosopher's Quest".

Pirate Adventure, by Scott Adams and Alexis Adams
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Only by exploring this strange island will you be able to uncover the clues necessary to lead you to your elusive goal -- recovering the lost treasures of Long John Silver. Converted from original code by...

Quest, by Roger Plowman, David Betz
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Quest has a very complicated history. The above 1979 date is the first known published version, written in RSTS/E using a time-sharing operating system on the PDP-11 16-bit minicomputer; version 3.0 has a...

Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington
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Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth
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Originally developed by Rod Underwood in 1980 on Cambridge University’s Phoenix mainframe computer, it was later ported to the BBC Micro by Peter Killworth in 1984. This is one of the rarest and most...

Recluse, by Stephen Gorrell
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A text adventure in the classic Infocom style. It begins with you delivering a sealed package, contents unknown, to J. Daggett Winton, noted archeologist, explorer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher,......
Reefer Island, by Steve Barrera
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After what you've been through, you could really use a bong hit.

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts
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It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack.

Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne
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You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a...

Savage Island, Part I, by Scott Adams
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A small island holds an awesome secret -- will you be able to discover it? This is the beginning of a two-part Adventure. NOTE: This one's a toughie -- for experienced Adventurers only! WARNING! The Z-Code...

Somewhere, Somewhen, by Jim MacBrayne
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Somewhere, Somewhen is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game (with some humour) written for the PC using qBasic64. It is uploaded as a zip file, and all contents of this file (with the exception...
Spheres of Chaos, by Chris Grant
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Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
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In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham
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PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,...

Tower of Barad, by Zakiagatgo
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Twin Kingdom Valley, by Trevor Hall and P. M. Skinner
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Twin Kingdom Valley is a complex adventure game using full-screen high resolution graphics for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64. There are over 179 different locations, each of which (except in...

Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant, by D. A. Leary
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"You play the role of a down-and-out Acme salesman, forced to work out of the Golden Dragon Inn, dangerously near Dread Unnkulia. Will you accumulate enough loot in this frightful backwater berg to turn your...
Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure, by D. A. Leary
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"You play the part of Kuulest's slave, and must recover the Orb of Studosity from the evil Unnkulians. Kuulest, the old geezebag, has died and left you with nothing to go on but a cryptic message about...
Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of Acme, by David Baggett
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"Your adventure continues as you try to create some good press for yourself -- wouldn't want to fade into anonymous obscurity, now would you? Along the way, you'll find the answers to these compelling...

Village of Lost Souls, by Martin Moore and Glenn McAuley
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"An aura of doom hangs low over the mediaeval world of Albion, a primitive, mysterious world where magic still exists. Magic may only be used by the Order of Leofric, Patron of Magic and discoverer of the...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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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]

Warp, by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik
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An extremely large HP3000 mainframe adventure, written in Pascal on an HP3000 circa 1979. It can be run on an HP3000 emulator. The game is set in the sprawling town (and islands off the coast) of Warp and...

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
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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...

The Wedding, by Neil James Brown
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What should have been a simple task, watching your old flatmate Malcolm get married, becomes an awful lot more complicated when it transpires that Malcolm has disappeared mere hours before the service. You...

Windmere Estate, by Dennis N. Strong
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A traditional treasure hunt in and around the grounds of a sprawling estate. Collect all the pirate's plunder and store it in the correct location up to a maximum of 415 points. Vampire bats, hedge mazes and...

Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth
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"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]

The Wizard of Akyrz, by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden
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Twice defeated by a mere mortal it has taken the evil wizard some time to recover his powers. Now he forms a new plan to trap and utterly destroy the earthly being that dares to thwart him. Games converted...

Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor
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Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's...

World, by J. D. McDonald
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On a scientific mission, your starship found that its long-range scanners could not penetrate the atmosphere of an unknown planet due to a shimmering forcefield. A landing party was sent down to investigate,...
Zork, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
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Also known as Dungeon. The original mainframe game that was later split and adapted into the Zork trilogy for microcomputers.

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