Nathan's Played Games
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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Nathan's rating:  Average member rating: (535 ratings)The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings)"With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
| Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
| Adventureland, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (44 ratings)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... |
| Arthur, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (29 ratings)"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (44 ratings)Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
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(26 ratings)Berrost's Challenge, by Mark Hatfield
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(7 ratings)| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (50 ratings)Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
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(13 ratings)Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
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(94 ratings)Blue Sky, by Hans Fugal
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(9 ratings)| Border Zone, by Marc Blank Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings)Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,... |
| Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings)IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
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(6 ratings)Chicks Dig Jerks, by Robb Sherwin
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(27 ratings)| The Count, by Scott Adams Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings)"It begins when you awake in a large brass bed in a castle somewhere in Transylvania. Who are you, what are you doing here and WHY did the postman deliver a bottle of blood? Converted from original code by... |
| Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings)You are awoken, startled by a sound in the night. Still bleary from dreams, you turn on the light to chase away the shadows. But there, beyond the safety of your room, something moves in the darkness. It is... |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings)Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
| Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
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(23 ratings)| Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings)You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings)In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (40 ratings)A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
| The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (49 ratings) |
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(7 ratings)Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
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(21 ratings)| Ghost Town, by Scott Adams Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings)You must explore a once-thriving mining town in search of the 13 hidden treasures. With everything from rattlesnakes to runaway horses, it sure ain't going to be easy! Includes a special bonus scoring system... |
| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings)Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
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(9 ratings)| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (185 ratings)Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings)Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
| I-0, by Anonymous Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (157 ratings)Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
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(19 ratings)| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings)Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
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(4 ratings)| Journey, by Marc Blank Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings)Have you mettle enough to make siege on the Dread Lord himself? ...We shall see. If you've ever been spellbound by a fantasy story, captivated by a role playing game, or enthralled by interactive fiction,... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings)And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
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(5 ratings)| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (92 ratings)A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (116 ratings)"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
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(10 ratings)| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings)More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
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(45 ratings)| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings)You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
| Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
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(13 ratings)| Pirate Adventure, by Scott Adams and Alexis Adams Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings)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... |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings)"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
| Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings)In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
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(7 ratings)| Rameses, by Stephen Bond Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (125 ratings) |
| Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (28 ratings)There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your... |
| Secret Mission, by Scott Adams Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings)In this exciting Adventure, time is of the essence as you race the clock to complete your mission in time -- or else the world's first automated nuclear reactor is doomed! If you survive this challenging... |
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(3 ratings)| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings)Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
| Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings)Experience the sweeping drama and power of James Clavell's Shogun. The year is 1600. You are John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of a privateering merchant ship and the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese... |
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(25 ratings)| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings)Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (98 ratings)A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings)Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (311 ratings)A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
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(9 ratings)| Starcross, by Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings)Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (46 ratings)What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
| Suspect, by Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings)You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings)They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (102 ratings)You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
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(11 ratings)| Voodoo Castle, by Alexis Adams and Scott Adams Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings)The Count has fallen victim to a fiendish curse placed on him by his enemies. There he lies, with you his only possible hope. Will you pull off a rescue, or is he really down for the Count?! [--blurb from... |
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(13 ratings)| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings)It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
| The Witness, by Stu Galley Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to... |
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(3 ratings)| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (218 ratings)Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (97 ratings)The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings)An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
| Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky Nathan's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings)The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |
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