Canalboy's Played Games
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| Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington Canalboy's rating:   Average member rating:  |
| AdventP, by George Richmond Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 15 hours A game with similarities to the original ADVENT (or Colossal Cave if you prefer) but with many differences and an all-round tougher experience. The game was written in CDC Pascal by George Richmond, with... |
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| Adventure Quest, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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! Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 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,... |
| The Black Tower, by Jim MacBrayne Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 12 hours Originally written in Commodore BASIC for the PET. The premise involves a complicated journey above and below ground to find a sphere which will defeat the Demon Lord who resides in the eponymous structure.... |
| 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,... |
| Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Welcome to Castle Adventure! Written and directed by Ben Chenoweth (Copyright 2002 Grinnan Berrit Software). Adapted to Inform 7 by Ben Chenoweth, 2012. You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who... |
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| Castle Blackstar, by Mark Sheppard, Andrew Cummins, Geoff Richardson Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
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The Castle of Hornadette, by Stephen J. Konig
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| Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
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Christminster, by Gareth Rees
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| Colossal Cave Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don... |
| Cranston Manor, by Harold DeWitz and Ken Williams Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 12 hours Cranston Manor is a Hi-Res Adventure set in contemporary times in Coarsegold, California. You explore the estate of Old Man Cranston and find the riches that are hidden throughout the manor and surrounding... |
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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 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 Dark Tower, by Jack Lockerby Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
| Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 8 hours 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... |
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Enemies, by Andy Phillips
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| Ferret, by [email protected] 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. |
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| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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| Frustration, by Jim MacBrayne Canalboy's rating: 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... |
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| Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: (1 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... |
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Heist, by Andy Phillips
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Hezarin, by Alex Shipp and Steve Tinney
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The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne
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| Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
| Labyrinths of LaCoshe, by Anonymous |
| 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| 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... |
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Mirror of Khoronz, by Derek Haslam
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| Monster Rally, by Charles A. Crayne, Dian Crayne Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 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... |
| Mordon's Quest, by Peter Moreland, Peter Donne, and John Jones-Steele Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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The New Castle, by Dan Gahlinger
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| 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... |
| Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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| 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". |
| Pirate Adventure, by Scott Adams and Alexis Adams Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 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... |
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| 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... |
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| Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: 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: You play as a 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 wizardly... |
| Savage Island, Part I, by Scott Adams Average member rating: 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... |
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Stonequest, by David H. Strelitz
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| 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,... |
Tower of Barad, by Zakiagatgo
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| Twin Kingdom Valley, by Trevor Hall and P. M. Skinner Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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| Village of Lost Souls, by Martin Moore and Glenn McAuley Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 14 hours "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... |
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| Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: Canalboy's time: 9 hours Walking along a lonely country lane one day, you notice a strange object lying by the side of the road. On picking it up, you find that it consists of a number of silver discs pivoted together through the... |
| Whembly Castle, by R.L. Turner Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: John Whembly was a knight, pirate, and RICH! He owned a large castle located on an island in a small lake somewhere in jolly old England. Before he died, he hid somewhere a chest of gold coins (or so it is... |
| 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] |
| The Wizard of Akyrz, by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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 Canalboy's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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