Michael Martin's Played Games
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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre 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 Average member rating: (268 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 Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
| Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 ratings) |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (322 ratings)"Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (154 ratings)"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
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(3 ratings)Annoyotron, by Ben Parrish
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(16 ratings)Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game, by Riff Conner
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(17 ratings)| Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings)The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
| ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (18 ratings)In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and... |
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(31 ratings)| Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (44 ratings)It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (58 ratings)"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
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(2 ratings)| The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan Average member rating: (13 ratings)You are Balthasar, a magus from Babylon. You and your companions, Gaspar and Melchior, are about to embark on a journey to Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, to venerate a newborn king. You'll need... |
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(18 ratings)| The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings)I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
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(2 ratings)| Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (286 ratings)When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter, by Rob Myall Average member rating: (10 ratings)'The jet lands smoothly in Harbin. The stink of the city and the bite of the ice-cold air assaults you as you disembark, but your destination is a long jeep ride north, so you'll have to suffer through the... |
| Centipede, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (11 ratings) |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (54 ratings)It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
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(19 ratings)| Colours, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (2 ratings)"Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" all about colours - you need to change the sterile world you're in into a truly blue experience." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] This... |
| The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings)"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... |
| A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 ratings)No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
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(6 ratings)| Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (31 ratings)The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
| Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 ratings)They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
| Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (42 ratings)The infection has spread. They are coming. |
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(21 ratings)| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Average member rating: (84 ratings)"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
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(3 ratings)| The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 ratings)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 travel... |
| Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin Average member rating: (29 ratings)Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions! |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(1 rating)| Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings)Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
| Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Michael Martin's rating: Average member rating: (89 ratings)"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
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(19 ratings)| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings)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... |
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(7 ratings)| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (34 ratings)15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
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(21 ratings)| Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Average member rating: (20 ratings)"Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from... |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
| Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Michael Martin's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (492 ratings)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. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
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(38 ratings)| The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings)Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
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(5 ratings)| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
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(3 ratings)Need! More! Toast!, by Adam Biltcliffe
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(16 ratings)| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Michael Martin'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 the Same Old Lang Syne, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
| Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Michael Martin's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
| Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal Average member rating: (25 ratings)An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit. |
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(19 ratings)| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Average member rating: (56 ratings)Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (558 ratings)"Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
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(107 ratings)Pirates and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My!, by John Cater
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(10 ratings)| A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous Average member rating: (20 ratings)They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
| R (Pron: Arrr...), by therealeasterbunny Average member rating: (11 ratings)Ye be the Dread (but handsome n' quite nice on occasion) Pirate Goattybeard. Ye quest? Why, it be t'get the treasure and rescue ye wench o'course! There be sharks, grog, caves, bones, an' all manner o'... |
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(4 ratings)| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 ratings)Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
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(3 ratings)| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
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(14 ratings)| Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Michael Martin's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings)This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Michael Martin's rating: Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
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(18 ratings)SpeedIF #2, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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(4 ratings)speedif zombie, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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(3 ratings)| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (310 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)The Stars Are Right, by Michael C. Martin
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(3 ratings)Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
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(36 ratings)| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: (225 ratings)An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
| The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Average member rating: (46 ratings) |
| Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (47 ratings)You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
| The Tenyaka Memorial of Vegreville, by Roger Carbol Average member rating: (2 ratings)In this small game that parodies Teletubbies, Pokemon, and Scientology, you play as a Knight of Xenu, sworn enemy of Thetans. Your quest has led you to the world's largest Easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta.... |
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(2 ratings)| Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (12 ratings)In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of... |
| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings)Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
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(174 ratings)| The War On New Year's, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings)Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
| Weishaupt Scholars, by Michael C. Martin Average member rating: (7 ratings)Take on the roles of Hal, Benj, and Janet -- the three newest members of the shadowy conspiratorial group known only as the Weishaupt Foundation. Vie against rival conspiracies and your own baffling... |
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(12 ratings)Wormwood Days II: The Aftermath, by Caleb Wilson
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(50 ratings)Your Choice, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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