Canalboy

London, UK.

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Last visited November 21, 2024
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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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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 With Extended Underwater Sequences - 15 votes for 15 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

The New Castle, by Dan Gahlinger   November 21, 2024
"Dan Gahlinger is to be congratulated on his memory in recreating this long lost old VAX mainframe program. It has a lot of potential as a..." - See the full review

Mordon's Quest, by Peter Moreland, Peter Donne, and John Jones-Steele   November 8, 2024
"Mordon's Quest from Australian developers Melbourne House was co-written by John Jones-Steele of Level 9 authorship fame in 1985. I won't..." - See the full review

Hezarin, by Alex Shipp and Steve Tinney   October 26, 2024
"At last. After 25 years on and off, 1,713 little blue tablets and umpteen visits to my psychiatrist I have beaten Hezarin. This old..." - See the full review

Lost, by Jeffrey Hersh   October 26, 2024
"The game claims to have had multiple beta testers. One wonders what it was like previously as I counted four typographical howlers on the..." - See the full review

Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth   October 13, 2024
"Robb Sherwin once observed quite sagely about Zork that the game actively hates its player. That may well be so; in which case Quondam..." - See the full review

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Canalboy's Played Games List

Whembly Castle, by R.L. Turner
Mordon's Quest, by Peter Moreland, Peter Donne, and John Jones-Steele
Lost, by Jeffrey Hersh
Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor
Tower of Barad, by Zakiagatgo

See all 106 entries in the Played List