Canalboy

London, UK.

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Member since February 15, 2016
Last visited March 24, 2025
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55 year old IT analyst, Wine Buff and Arsenal supporter. IF acolyte. A bit battered with pieces falling off. Lover of the Seventies and cheese. Although not cheese from the Seventies as it tends to be a bit too mouldy.

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Recommended Lists by Canalboy

Games Where The Shape Of The Map Is Relevant To Game Completion - 3 items   March 7, 2025
As an inveterate cartographer of text adventures I was considering which games require accurate map construction to solve at least one...

Excellent IF Games With Unfair Puzzles - 5 items   May 18, 2017
A Selection Of Enjoyable IF That Contain(s) Ridiculous Puzzles. All the games mentioned are enjoyable to me and of a very high standard...

Polls by Canalboy

Games Where Moving In The Dark Is Essential - 15 votes for 15 games; created March 16, 2025
As a compulsive map maker I recently came across two games where you have to know your location exactly as you need to move in complete...

Games With Extended Underwater Sequences - 18 votes for 18 games; created October 24, 2024
That is games that have immersive (pun intended) sub aqua areas of more than, say ten locations.

The Most Humorous Scenarios /Characters in IF - 18 votes for 18 games; created August 1, 2022
I was recently re-essaying Castle Ralf and if you "Cogitate" in a certain location there is a seemingly authentic sequence which appears...

Games That No-one Has Ever Knowingly Finished - 8 votes for 7 games; created June 23, 2022
I mean games that have no posted solutions. I realise that a lot of these could be buggy and therefore unfinishable but some will be just...

Games With Unfair Beginnings - 23 votes for 16 games; created October 7, 2021
By this I mean games that can be made unwinnable near the start or have hellish opening puzzles.

Reviews by Canalboy

Stonequest, by David H. Strelitz   March 16, 2025
"Stonequest is an archetypal "complete quest for king and usurp evil tyrant" adventure which would pass as unremarkable but for possibly..." - See the full review

Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin   February 28, 2025
"Où sont les neiges d'antan? It must be said that I had many a Proustian moment replaying this excellent Level 9 offering. It is 42 years..." - See the full review

Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright   February 27, 2025
"This is another large and finicky Epic adventure with interminable dull paths and real-time elements; there are a whole host of winding..." - See the full review

Cranston Manor, by Harold DeWitz and Ken Williams   January 5, 2025
"Remakes, flippin' remakes. Nicholas Cage in The Wicker Man? Bruce Willis in The Day Of The Jackal? No more questions, m'lud. 1981 was of..." - See the full review

AdventP, by George Richmond   December 17, 2024
"We've all done it - bumping into someone for the first time in years and barely clocking them but there are still some immutable features..." - See the full review

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Canalboy's Played Games List

Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth
The Black Tower, by Jim MacBrayne
Stonequest, by David H. Strelitz
Wheel Of Fortune, by Melvyn E. Wright
Cranston Manor, by Harold DeWitz and Ken Williams

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