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| 69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn jfpbookworm's rating:  Average member rating: (80 ratings)There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
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(70 ratings)| All Roads, by Jon Ingold jfpbookworm's rating: 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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(94 ratings)| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (393 ratings)You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| And the Waves Choke the Wind, by Gunther Schmidl jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings)"some thing inside of me has opened up its eyes why did you put it there? did you not realize?" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
| Arthur, by Bob Bates jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
| Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings)WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (155 ratings)In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
| Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings)"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler jfpbookworm's rating: 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,... |
| Best of Three, by Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty jfpbookworm's rating: 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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(94 ratings)| Border Zone, by Marc Blank jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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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(7 ratings)Chico and I Ran, by J. D. Berry
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(3 ratings)Coke Is It!, by Lucian P. Smith, Adam Thornton, J. Robinson Wheeler, Michael Fessler, Dan Shiovitz, David Dyte
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(19 ratings)| Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings)In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast... |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson jfpbookworm's rating: 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 jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (98 ratings)No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank jfpbookworm'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... |
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(4 ratings)| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling jfpbookworm'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... |
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(11 ratings)| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
| Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings)"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
| Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings)One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt jfpbookworm's rating: 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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(9 ratings)| Galatea, by Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (335 ratings)Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
| Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings)In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point... |
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(6 ratings)Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
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(99 ratings)| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (90 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... |
| Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)"Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
| The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings)Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of... |
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(16 ratings)| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones jfpbookworm'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...... |
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(122 ratings)| I-0, by Anonymous jfpbookworm'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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(9 ratings)| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn jfpbookworm'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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(28 ratings)| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
| Journey, by Marc Blank jfpbookworm'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,... |
| LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings)In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky jfpbookworm'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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(6 ratings)| Letters from Home, by Roger Firth jfpbookworm's rating: 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... |
| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings)This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
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(20 ratings)| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling jfpbookworm'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. |
| Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings)Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late! |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (130 ratings)You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky jfpbookworm'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... |
| Möbius, by J.D. Clemens jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings)Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
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(61 ratings)| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence jfpbookworm'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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(12 ratings)Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
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(57 ratings)| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (559 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)Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
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(110 ratings)| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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... |
| Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings)On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
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(90 ratings)| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings)You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (131 ratings)The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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... |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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] |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin jfpbookworm'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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(5 ratings)| Starcross, by Dave Lebling jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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... |
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(54 ratings)| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn jfpbookworm'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... |
| T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,... |
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(11 ratings)| Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings)Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a... |
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(5 ratings)| Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings)Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered... |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty jfpbookworm'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... |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (131 ratings)You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
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(16 ratings)Winchester's Nightmare, by Nick Montfort
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(8 ratings)| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty jfpbookworm'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 jfpbookworm'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... |
| Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings)Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's... |
| Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton jfpbookworm's rating: Average member rating: (90 ratings)For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
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(50 ratings)Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
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(19 ratings)| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling jfpbookworm'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 Zero, by Steve Meretzky jfpbookworm'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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