| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| ADVEN_C.ZIP | Yes | 114993 | 11/22/1993 | Adventure ($0) is an adventure game with complete C source code. |
| ADVENTUR.ZIP | Yes | 119868 | 11/21/1993 | Adventure Games ($0) This is a collection of old, text-based adventure games, most of which require Basic. These are included primarily for people who really love such games or who are Basic programmers and want to study the source code. |
| ALICE.ZIP | Yes | 160313 | 11/20/1993 | Alice in Wonderland (Johnson, R. C.; $10) is an adventure game based on Lewis Carroll's famous book. The adventures you have will be based in part on the book, but in many ways it will be very different. This is NOT an easy game. We had trouble getting started at all. you try to get all the necessary items you will need to take on a one-way trip to America without being spotted by the KGB. |
| BTN_ADV.ZIP | Yes | 100185 | 11/18/1993 | Button Games (Button, Conrad; $15) contains two adventure games, "Castaway" and "South America Trek". |
| BTN_ADV2.ZIP | Yes | 165563 | 11/18/1993 | Button Games #2 (Button, Conrad; $15) contains the games Nebula, Dark Continent and Red Planet. you encounter monsters, it switches to graphics for the sword fighting. all-text adventure involving the exploration of an English church, churchyard, and underground vaults where great treasures from British history may be found. These treasures are protected by devious traps and creatures both natural and supernatural. a graphical role playing game in which you wander around the countryside, searching for treasures and magic, and killing monsters. You can purchase potions, weapons, armor, and healing points at special shops. (The author is no longer at the address provided in the documentation.) text adventure game where you are one of the top agents and your job is to keep peace and stop all disturbances. Sound effects are used effectively, but are optional. adventure game. The course of the game is dictated by your response to the situation. The goal is to free the souls of the townspeople which have been trapped by the evil Lord Droganya. |
| CRUSADE.ZIP | Yes | 100621 | 12/6/1993 | Crusade and Quest ($0) are two adventure games set in the Middle Ages. is a text adventure game that takes place on the campus of Caltech. You play the main character: an undergraduate at Caltech. As the story opens, you find that today is Ditch Day, the Caltech tradition in which seniors leave campus for the day, but not before barring the doors to their rooms with all sorts of complex puzzles and devices called "stacks." Your job is to defeat the stack left by the senior who lives across the hall from you, in order to get into his room and claim whatever treasures await you. |
| DS_AWAKE.ZIP | Yes | 81683 | 12/4/1993 | Deep Space Awakening (Stanley, Declan; $10) is a text-based adventure game for advanced players. You awaken in space in your deep sleep capsule only to find most of your fellow crew members have been devoured by an unknown orange mold. You try to maneuver around the damaged spaceship, seeking survivors, and trying not to be killed. |
| DS_DRIFT.ZIP | Yes | 143378 | 12/5/1993 | Deep Space Drifter (High Energy Software; $15) you are adrift in your spaceship, nearly out of fuel and in the middle of nowhere. The process of getting rescued is where the adventure begins. In this text-only adventure you must live by your wits, and try to survive the dangers of a hostile universe. There are several interesting features that set this game apart from other text adventures including a "review mode" that lets you go back and look at text that is no longer visible on the screen, and a "Script" command that writes everything you see on the screen (your commands and the game's responses) to a disk file. |
| EVETS.ZIP | Yes | 525409 | 11/20/1993 | Evets (Ackerman, Steven P.; $10) is a role-playing fantasy adventure game. The program creates a drama where the player(s) are in a world of animated mythology. Each player is a roguish character living by his wits who attempts to challenge the fabulous spirits, sprites and monsters of folklore. Players explore endless labyrinths and dungeons in search of treasure and glory. |
| GALLANT.ZIP | Yes | 97481 | 10/12/1993 | Sir Guy Gallant [Wright, Eddie R.; $10] ("... & The Deadly Warning") is a mystery adventure game. It is set in mid-17th century England on the property of Gallant Hall. You, as Sir Guy Gallant, a cavalier knight of that era, must discover clues as to who killed your father, the late Sir James. |
| GAMORAMA.ZIP | Yes | 106836 | 11/18/1993 | Bob's Game-O-Rama (Maston, Robert A.; $?) contains two adventure games. the kidnapped Pumpkin Man and rid the neighborhood of ghosts and other nasties. |
| HUMBUG.ZIP | Yes | 146523 | 6/28/1993 | Humbug (Cluley, Graham; $20) HUMBUG starts innocently enough as you are are sent to your Grandad's for the Christmas holidays. You must discover the significance of the time machine in the cellar, play a round of Wubble-A-Gloop with an octopus, hobnob with some peculiar Vikings, discern the intentions of the evil neighbors, and much more. Getting used to some of the English vernacular used in the story is part of the fun. JACARANDA JIM you are rescued by an alien after crash landing on the strange world of Ibberspleen IV. In this game you will do battle with manic-depressive deckchair attendants, navigate a sinister network of dank caves, and decipher the mystery of the floating sphere. All will be revealed if you can just figure out what to do with the gin-spitting pirate, a cucumber, and a piece of gristle. tourist lost in some burnt-out, deserted buildings in New York City. BASIC required. |
| LOSTGOLD.ZIP | Yes | 137373 | 11/21/1993 | Lost Gold 1.02 (Johnson, Ray; $12) is a detailed text adventure that takes you back to search for the Lost Dutchman Mine. There are lots of obstacles and hazards to overcome, puzzles to solve, and assorted treasure mines to explore. |
| LOVEFIRE.ZIP | Yes | 81124 | 9/29/1993 | Lovefire 1.2 (Pinnacle Software; $0) is a branching story program. You get to make decisions about the way the story develops. It's a cross between a novel and an adventure game. Oh yeah, and it's for women only! Female chauvinist programmer... Real-time means that unlike other adventure games where you can take your time entering commands, you have to be fast on the keyboard. An additional program lets you create your own dungeons. A CPU slow-down utility may be required. |
| MCMURPHY.ZIP | Yes | 86812 | 11/20/1993 | McMurphy's Mansion (Martin-A; $10) is an all-text adventure game. It features an on-screen map (no graphics required), help screens and inventory list. |
| PIRATE.ZIP | Yes | 103055 | 11/23/1993 | Pirate is an interesting maze type of game in which you try to work your way through tunnels and ledges in and around a cave, looking for a pirate's treasure. Once found, you attempt to work your way back out without losing the treasure. BASIC required. Also in this archive is a French-language adaptation of Pirate by Jean-Pierre Cabannes. The player may use the numeric keypad as direction keys, the labyrinth and catacombs are more complicated, and the second location of the treasure is at a random place. Mars to secure the lost treasures of Aukbaa. Upon achieving planetary orbit you find that your fuel is depleted. Can you acquire the Lost Treasures of Aukbaa and return home? This is an advanced level game. bizarre text adventure in which you attempt to get Santa Claus around the world on Christmas Eve by jumping from time zone to time zone to stay at midnight. You must deal with screwy elves, flying reindeer, hostile climates, and other situations which defy description. This game is suitable for all ages; you cannot die and you don't have to kill any one or thing, but if you fail in your tasks Christmas will be ruined for the entire world. classic text adventure, set on the southeast coast of eighteenth-century England. is a psychological thriller in the form of a text adventure game. You awaken in a dark room with three vampires discussing your fate. After you burst through the door and scramble into the desolate woods, you must discover your purpose in this nightmare. You will meet and talk with friends and foes on your quest, and there are many thought-provoking puzzles to be solved. |
| SQUYNCH.ZIP | Yes | 100621 | 11/23/1993 | Squynch (Malmberg, David; $0) is an adventure game in which you try to save a nation of very odd creatures by finding the crown jewels. Easy to moderate difficulty. another in a series of text adventure games in which you play a top secret agent. This adventure takes you through the Spectre Tower. |
| STAGEFRI.ZIP | Yes | 140281 | 11/20/1993 | Son of Stagefright (McCauley, Mike; $5) is a text adventure game. This game was the first place winner in the third annual AGT Adventure Game Writing Contest. In it, you play the role of an actor or actress trying to get out of an old, abandoned theater. Along the way you'll run into creaky catwalks, raging rivers, mini mazes, rogues, royalty, rats and a zoo keeper. submarine. It's up to you to make the mission a successful one. Antarctica where the enemy has a secret weapon hidden in an ice cavern. You must get in, steal the plans, and get back out. |
| TITANIC.ZIP | Yes | 123368 | 11/18/1993 | Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure game. $10) is a pair of richly complex, well-written, text-based adventure games, Unnkulian Unventure II: The Secret of ACME and Unnkulian Underworld: The Unknown Unventure. |
| WIZ_LAIR.ZIP | Yes | 212721 | 11/20/1993 | Wizard's Lair (Nowalk, Rick; $25) is an adventure game where you will travel with a group through the wilderness, the wasteland or the hidden valley fighting various monsters. Skill levels are acquired as the game goes on. |
| WS20.ZIP | Yes | 74938 | 6/7/1989 | Wilderness Survival (Carroll, Christian D.; $12-$15) is a fantasy adventure game in which you get lost in the National Forest with only a Swiss Army Knife and have to find your way to the Ranger Station. Perils include fist fights with Paul Bunyan, Davy Crockett, and others as well as foot races with Indians. Meanwhile, Rugglestone Ripper is a murderer who has been hiding in the forest and it's up to you to solve the crime and bring him to justice. |
| DUDLEY.ZIP | Yes | 140177 | 11/20/1993 | Dudley Dilemma (Barrow, Lane; $?) In this game, you play the role of a Harvard student living in Dudley House in his/her quest for knowledge, adventure and a diploma. This award winning game is a very clever, humorous and challenging adventure in the classic style of Infocom. |
| LIFELESS.ZIP | Yes | 249981 | 11/20/1993 | "Another Lifeless Planet..." C.1 (Drew, Dennis; $?) ("...and Me with No Beer") is an adventure game in which everything you do or come in contact with has an express purpose. You are a hapless astronaut stranded on a hostile alien planet, trying to get to an alien spaceship and rig it to blast off safely. You will face perils such as deadly Slurpers, Air Squids, Bladderbeasts, and the terrible Pun Palm Tree. Prepare to die horribly and often; we couldn't get past the large, icky-looking monster. Requires 640k, and a hard disk is recommended. |
| MD_THIEF.ZIP | Yes | 290895 | 11/19/1993 | Multi-Dimensional Thief (Finch, Joel; $0) is a humorous text adventure game. Pop-up hints are included. |
| PORK.ZIP | Yes | 169237 | 11/20/1993 | Pork (Malmberg, David; $0) is a parody of Infocom's Zork text adventure, as well as being an interesting adventure game. You do not need to have played Zork to enjoy this game. Requires a hard disk or high density floppy. Rick; $0) is novella-type role playing game that lets the player decide the story's outcome by deciding plot turns. Quest is more short-story than game. (Text may not be suitable for children in places.) A slow-down utility may be needed. |
| T_ZERO.ZIP | Yes | 219910 | 12/5/1993 | T-Zero (Cunningham, Dennis M. ASP; $15) is a text-based adventure game that mixes elements of fantasy and science fiction, while exploring the nature of time. Your task is to locate six objects scattered across eras and landscapes, and manipulate them in a fashion that will right the troubled times. The prose featured in this game is beautifully descriptive, although a bit on the cryptic side. This is one of the most unusual adventures you'll ever go on. |
| CLIF_DVR.ZIP | Yes | 204450 | 11/20/1993 | Cliff Diver (Farley, Patrick; $10) is an adventure game in which you help Cliff Diver, a private investigator living and working in San Francisco, solve a crime. A pop-up hint file is included. video arcade. |
| FBI.ZIP | Yes | 126454 | 11/20/1993 | FBI (MicroMinded Software Co.; $20) is a game in which you are are the director of a team of up to eleven field agents which are located all over the United States. Your assignment is to guide these agents so that they can chase and capture crooks. |
| HIGHSEA.ZIP | Yes | 289600 | 9/22/1993 | High Sea Homicide (Sherwood Forest Software; $15) is a murder mystery game. While on vacation aboard an ocean liner, you find yourself in the midst of a murder mystery. You must find the killer and bring them to justice. Requires VGA & hard drive. |
| ITTYBIT.ZIP | Yes | 95094 | 11/20/1993 | Itty Bitty Mysteries (BEZ; $10) is a collection of five different mysteries to solve. Each mystery starts with a picture of the situation and a little background information. As you move the cursor around the screen, it will change into a magnifying glass when it touches a clue. When you are ready to solve the mystery, you are asked a series of question to see if you really have all the facts. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure these out, but you will have to pay careful attention to all the obvious (and not-so-obvious) clues at your disposal. |
| MDV.ZIP | Yes | 146348 | 9/22/1993 | Mordorventure III 6.0 (Rockland Software Productions; $17) is a role-playing fantasy adventure game. Up to five people can play simultaneously or play against the computer. May require a cpu slow-down utility. a mystery a la Sam Spade. |
| SLEUTH.ZIP | Yes | 55482 | 11/20/1993 | Sleuth (Miller, Eric; $?) is a murder-mystery adventure game. As you begin a game of SLEUTH a murder has just been committed. Your job is to mingle with the houseguests and to search the contents of the house until you feel you have solved the crime. Every game of SLEUTH is different so you must fully explore the house each time that you play. |
| SWEDEN.ZIP | Yes | 177070 | 11/20/1993 | One Night in Sweden (Gustafsson, Roger; $20) is a murder mystery adventure or role-playing game. It proceeds from a man's point of view, but women could play it too. This game is based on realistic interaction with the characters in the story. There are no "right" or "wrong" answers. You have to be smart and tactical to inspire confidence and get information, just like in real life. You have to be even smarter to use the clues and find out who the murderer is. The program features high-res black and white animated graphics and music. The game is different each time you play. |
| COL_CAVE.ZIP | Yes | 177461 | 11/20/1993 | Colossal Cave (ImageIllusions; $0) The object is to get into the cave, gather all the treasures and get out alive. Requires 384K. |
| DUNGEONS.ZIP | Yes | 74561 | 11/18/1993 | DND (Knight, Bill; $?) is a computerized version of a popular role-playing game known as Dungeons and Dragons. levels, 150+ rooms, and countless corridors. Danger abounds in this game. Besides a huge inventory of monsters there are many traps awaiting the unwary. Also, many of the treasures you find (and you find plenty if you live long enough) turn out to be very hazardous to your health. In fact, if you are an average beginning player, we can safely predict that you will probably not get past level 3 during the first 10 games you play (unless you happen to fall through a trap door). Required: 512k, hard disk. Dragons"-type game. Like the other Dungeons and Dragons game on the library, a hard disk or RAM disk is recommended. If you do not have RAM-disk software, see the "Disk Drives" section of the Guide. Hack is a display oriented "Dungeons and Dragons" type game. It is similar in style to ROGUE played on UNIX systems but HACK is much richer in character. Hack has many more monsters and highly varied magic. The motivation in Hack is to descend through the dungeon to find the Amulet of Yendor, then return to the surface. As you travel you will meet various creatures (most of them nasty), find objects (some having magical properties), and experience many hazards in the dungeon itself. complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration. There are a number of ways to win, and the game (via the oracle) may impose some structure on your exploration, but you need not follow all of the oracle's advice. The game is very similar to Rogue, Hack, Ultrarogue, Larn, and other such games. Requires 640K of memory and a hard disk. |
| HUMONGUS.ZIP | Yes | 338315 | 11/18/1993 | Humongous Cave (Softworks ASP; $15) is a complex text adventure game based on the 550 point version of Colossal Cave. It encompasses 300 different locations and over 200 creatures, treasures, and puzzles totaling 1000 points. There is an ingenious help system that can be invoked at any time, producing a topic menu. The clues are revealed one at a time, so you can stop looking if you don't want to cheat too much. This is a vast, professionally produced game which requires 512K of memory and 1.2 meg of disk space. |
| LABYRNTH.ZIP | Yes | 110166 | 11/19/1993 | Deadly Labyrinth (West, Frank; $0) is a text adventure game inspired by a series of books from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman called the Death Gate Cycle. |
| EC3.ZIP | Yes | 115907 | 8/25/1993 | Enchanted Castle (Wilk, Michael; $15) is a very well written adventure in an old castle. the Wizard you have to recover your sword and spellbook from the evil lord to to save the people of Seleria. The evil lord has granted you the opportunity to explore the three levels of his evil crypt to gather your possesions. You will encounter bugs that can bite through steel, poisonous snakes, intergalactic creatures, bottomless pits and more. requires you to search a cave for stolen museum treasures, avoiding traps and obstacles. drive a big truck of freight across country. You decide what type of freight to carry, whether to spend money on maintenance, whether to exceed the speed limit, etc. war between two emperors, the computer and you. simulation game which pits you and your ship against a Soviet fleet of vessels. The object of the game is to destroy as many Russian ships as possible while avoiding destruction. business strategy game in which you compete against other businesses. lets up to three players compete against each other or against the computer to see who can deal with daily financial decisions and reach a preset monetary goal. Israel; $10) is set in the year 2019 in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust. You lead one of the rebuilding nations. Up to three people can play at once. strategy and luck for one player. As the game begins, you have just just inherited an oil company from your rich uncle. The oil company has $50,000 in cash, a single oilwell, and a mortgage. During the game you must use your skill to increase your worth to $3,000,000 in order to pay off the mortgage. You have twenty turns in which to do this. Each turn consists of unlimited moves of buying, selling, refining, searching for oil, starting wells, and drilling on wells. At the end of each turn you must pay your taxes. During the game you may have to face strikes by the union, fires, and random occurrences which may influence the cost of crude oil or your refining costs. Sounds like your average work day in Houston. |
| ROCKSTAR.ZIP | Yes | 133443 | 12/4/1993 | RockStar (Wizard Games; $20) is a game in which you are trying to gain popularity and chart success in the crazy world of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Your health, alertness, creativity, happiness, and drug intake are constantly monitored and must be carefully controlled. puts you in control of a submarine. Features include real-time sonar display and realistic sound effects. ASCII characters are used for graphics, so it will run on any machine. text-based game that finds you in charge of a mining colony on a remote mining colony on Beta Crucis IV. You must make decisions concerning the sale and purchase of the individual mines, sale of ore to traders, and procurement of food and supplies for your people. Can you survive? International; $0) is a game in which you are the president of a small country trying to beat up as many as eight other countries in a race for land and wealth. It can be played by nine people or up to nine computer opponents. petroleum exploration game. This game was designed to be as close a possible to real petroleum prospecting. The 2D and 3D prospect maps present realistic subsurface topography similar to common geological maps. The economics and production also follow rules which insure realistic game play. Those of you who are familiar with the oil business will appreciate the inclusion of a simple production decline curve and the limits imposed on production by depth and formation characteristics. A detailed financial statement is also included. Although the simulation is complex the instructions are simple, and play is fairly intuitive. Requires CGA or EGA. R. & Welch, Mark J. ASP; $20) will allow you to create and play your own text adventure games. The Standard Level requires no programming experience to generate interesting games. The Professional Level makes use of a special adventure game language to create games that have the professional look and feel of commercial (eg: Infocom) adventure games. Games can have up to 200 locations, 100 inanimate objects, 100 people, animals or creatures, and up to a 400-word vocabulary. Requires 384k+. lets you create your own simple adventure games. BASIC is required. (Not on a par with AGT, above.) |
| GAMSCAPE.ZIP | Yes | 323182 | 11/21/1993 | GameScape Graphic C.2 (Drew, Dennis; $95) helps you design adventure games. You can describe locations and rooms, objects, recognizable words, messages and occurrences that happened within the game. You can create games of any size, and include sound and music. development system for creating text adventure games. It consists of a compiler for a high-level object-oriented language, a run-time system providing a sophisticated player command parser, and a set of common adventure objects such as a room or items that the player can pick up and carry around. Saving and restoring games, undoing commands, controlling the on-screen display, and several other low-level tasks are done automatically by the system. A sample game is included. |