Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
Kingdom of Hamil, by Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
LAND, by Darren Higgs Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Lost Kingdom of Zkul, by Jon Malone and Allan Black Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: ![]() "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... |
Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
The New Castle, by Dan Gahlinger Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "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... |
Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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". |
Quest, by Roger Plowman; David Betz Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |