Canalboy's Played Games

Quest, by Roger Plowman, David Betz Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (1 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...

Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington
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Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) 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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Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: (30 ratings) 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (4 ratings) 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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T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) 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,...

Twin Kingdom Valley, by Trevor Hall and P. M. Skinner Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) 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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Village of Lost Souls, by Martin Moore and Glenn McAuley Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) "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 Average member rating: (383 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]

Warp, by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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 Canalboy'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...

The Wedding, by Neil James Brown
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Windmere Estate, by Dennis N. Strong Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) 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 Canalboy'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]

The Wizard of Akyrz, by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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...

World, by J. D. McDonald
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