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(12 ratings)| The 12:54 to Asgard, by J. Robinson Wheeler JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings)Your mood is foul as you drive down to the studio in the middle of the night to fix a leak that's threatening to short circuit the entire studio. A chilling feeling haunts you tonight, and you feel pushed to... |
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(15 ratings)| 9:05, by Adam Cadre JohnW'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. |
| Adventure Quest, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings)Adventure Quest is a full scale adventure game with 225 individually described locations. You will have to solve a very large number of problems on your journey to the Black Tower and (perhaps) victory. To... |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow JohnW'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... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (394 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... |
| The Angel Curse, by David Welbourn JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)Neither the girl in the wheelchair nor the angel pendant she wears are quite what they seem to be. Written for Speed-IF 19. |
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(16 ratings)| Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl JohnW's rating: 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... |
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(6 ratings)| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill JohnW'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... |
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(6 ratings)| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte JohnW'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] |
| The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan JohnW's rating: 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 JohnW's rating: 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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(15 ratings)| Border Zone, by Marc Blank JohnW'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 JohnW'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... |
| Burn the Koran and Die, by Poster JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings)It is the one sacred cow remaining in American political life. You are a rebellious student at a typically oppressive PC college. What happens next? Whatever you do, don't burn the Koran, or you'll die. |
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(5 ratings)| A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings)"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of... |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen JohnW's rating: 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... |
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(4 ratings)Detective, by Matt Barringer
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(19 ratings)| Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings)The infection has spread. They are coming. |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (175 ratings)The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings)Complete our Middle Earth Trilogy. The Demon has been defeated and his Dark Tower cast down. But its dangerous remain, filled with hoarded treasure and magic. There are just two snags. Other creatures want... |
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(6 ratings)| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian JohnW'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 JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
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(21 ratings)ETO, by Ian Waddell
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(1 rating)Fish and Spaceships, by Adam Biltcliffe
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(4 ratings)| Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin JohnW's rating: 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! |
| Galatea, by Emily Short JohnW'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... |
| Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings)Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
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(6 ratings)Gris et Jaune, by Jason Devlin
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(25 ratings)| The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles JohnW'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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(19 ratings)| Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken, by Admiral Jota JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky JohnW'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... |
| I-0, by Anonymous JohnW'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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(7 ratings)| Knight Orc, by Pete Austin JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings)Knight Orc casts you as an oppressed orc in a magical world where all is not as it first seems. For generations humans have been persecuting orcs, and now it's time to get your own back. A fantasy adventure... |
| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke JohnW's rating: 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... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky JohnW'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... |
| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry JohnW'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... |
| Lords of Time, by Sue Gazzard and Ian Buxton JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)A band of evil timelords are plotting to alter world history, and Father Time has chosen you to help stop them. This requires 9 symbolic objects from critical times in history. Chill to the ice-age, find the... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (493 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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(5 ratings)| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (46 ratings)Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
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(8 ratings)| Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal JohnW's rating: 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. |
| The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
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(19 ratings)| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan JohnW's rating: 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 JohnW'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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(8 ratings)| Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs JohnW'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... |
| The Price of Magik, by Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, and James Horsler JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings)The dying light of the Red Moon has been captured in a crystal by the magicians of Baskalos to act as the last repository of magik. Its guardian for many years has been Myglar, a wise and respected sorcerer.... |
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(21 ratings)| A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings)They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
| R (Pron: Arrr...), by therealeasterbunny JohnW's rating: 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'... |
| Rameses, by Stephen Bond JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (125 ratings) |
| Red Moon, by David Williamson, Simon Aspinall, Pete Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)Red Moon re-enacts a tale from the time where Magik still worked and when mythical monsters guarded fabulous treasure. You have the use of many weapons and a dozen different magical spells to help you rescue... |
| Return to Eden, by Nick Austin, Chris Queen, and Tim Noyce JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)You play Kim Kimberley, and have just saved the interstar transport, Snowball 9, from disaster. Unfortunately the control room vidcams show a different story. Kim seems to enter, hurl a bomb and the room is... |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian JohnW's rating: 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... |
| Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence JohnW's rating: 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... |
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(5 ratings)| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (167 ratings) |
| Snowball, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings)You play Kim Kimberley, secret agent extraordinary. Your mission: to safeguard the interstar transport, Snowball 9, as a last resort following catastrophic accident or sabotage. Thus when your modified... |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin JohnW'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] |
| Sphinx Adventure, by Paul Fellows JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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(4 ratings)Tooth Ow Zunden Too, by Duncan Cross
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(4 ratings)| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings)Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
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(7 ratings)Visualizing, by Marnie Parker
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(6 ratings)| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh JohnW's rating: 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... |
| Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings)A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the... |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty JohnW'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 Worm in Paradise, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler JohnW's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings)The Worm in Paradise takes place on the planet Eden, 100 years after the time of Snowball and Return to Eden. The robot megalopolis of Enoch may be a paradise for the silent majority, but it's a real... |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling JohnW'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 JohnW'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... |
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