 | Denis through the Drinking Glass, by Ian Bishrey, Roger Taylor 2 votes "Loved this game" [+]"Loved this game: This game takes me back to the time of Text Adventures." --Richard Otter... "So quirky and..." [+]"So quirky and surreal." ( ) --Ooz...
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 | Forbidden Castle, by Mercer Mayer 2 votes "Apparantly no one..." [+]"Apparantly no one else has heard of this. We loved it though. " ( - Full review) --tggdan3... "I think it's..." [+]"I think it's interesting that this game was written by Mercer Mayer, author of Just My Me and My Dad and other children's books. " --Jonathan Blask...
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 | SUDS, by Dave Edwards 1 vote "Originally..." [+]"Originally released on cassette, by mail order, and full of terrible puns and references to soap opera characters no-one's likely to remember. They don't come much more obscure than this." --J. J. Guest...
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| The Hermit's Secret, by Temple Software 1 vote "One of the first IF games I ever played" [+]"One of the first IF games I ever played" ( - Full review) --Spike...
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 | The Helm, by Simon Jay 1 vote "The usual, and..." [+]"The usual, and frustrating, guess-the-verb syndrome, but I remember it had some nice (and very British) humour in it." ( ) --Fredrik...
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 | Gothmog's Lair, by Sean A. Moore 1 vote "This is really a..." [+]"This is really a little forgotten gem, if you can live with a two-word parser and if you like rpg-style combat. Very hard to play without the instruction booklet, though." ( ) --Fredrik...
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| The Fourth Sarcophagus, by Anonymous 1 vote "This may have..." [+]"This may have been the first (at least one of the first three) IF game I completed. I recall it as very atmospheric, but I am probably remembering my own vivid imagination." ( ) --Fredrik...
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| Uh-Oh, by Scott Covert 1 vote "Forgotten Shareware" [+]"Forgotten Shareware: Technically I only played the demo, and had no idea what to do, but it was my first IF and wedged the idea into my brain." --MattC...
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 | Demon's Tomb - The Awakening, by Simon Price 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) --baf...
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 | Zyll, by Marshal Linder and Scott Edwards (IBM) 1 vote "First text-based..." [+]"First text-based RPG I ever played - actually put out by IBM for its PC Jr." ( ) --Spike...
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| Valley of the Minotaur, by Nicolas van Dyk 1 vote "Its probably not nearly as good as I recall, but I loved the quirky island on which it occurred, filled with cannibals, mytholological beasts, a great lake you could naviagte by boat, etc." [+]"Its probably not nearly as good as I recall, but I loved the quirky island on which it occurred, filled with cannibals, mytholological beasts, a great lake you could naviagte by boat, etc." ( ) --Xervosh...
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| Jacaranda Jim, by Graham Cluley 1 vote "I dunno if this..." [+]"I dunno if this counts as commercial, quite, but it was the first IF I ever played and nobody else seems to remember it." --Sam Kabo Ashwell...
Xervosh says: I played Jacaranda Jim back around 1991, or maybe '92.
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| Another Lifeless Planet and Me With No Beer, by Dennis Drew 1 vote "Well, it is..." [+]"Well, it is shareware, and it tells you to get the instruction book you need to send money, so I suppose it's commercial. " ( - Full review) --tggdan3...
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