Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: ![]() |
Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
Birmingham IV, by Peter Emery Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Average member rating: ![]() 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 Average member rating: ![]() 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, a... |
Castle Blackstar, by Mark Sheppard, Andrew Cummins, Geoff Richardson Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
Crystal Caverns, by Dan Kitchen Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "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... |
Ferret, by FerretAuthors@jugglingsoot.com Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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. |
Frustration, by Jim MacBrayne Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
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... |
Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member 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... |
T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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,... |
Village of Lost Souls, by Martin Moore and Glenn McAuley Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member 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: ![]() 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: ![]() 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: ![]() 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... |
Windmere Estate, by Dennis N. Strong Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member 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: ![]() "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] |