Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() |
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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,... |
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 of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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". |
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,... |
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... |