Text Adventures by Simon Avery
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I wrote a whole bunch of text adventures during the 80's and early 90's for the Amstrad CPC and PC which were converted to the Spectrum and C64 by Tony Collins (Guild), Anthony Reynolds (Adventure Workshop) and Dorothy Millard. Many sold commercially, and many were released as public domain. (Known today as Freeware) Good times, a good bunch of folks involved in the UK textie scene at that time. I hereby release all my text adventures up until 2004 as public domain. All copyright notices are void insofar as they apply to me. If you have any versions of these games that aren't listed below, I'd love a copy. Thanks to Dorothy Millard and Frederic Herlem for sending me copies of some of the following. Thanks also to Debby Howard, D. Jones and Philip Reynolds for some of the solutions. Here follows the games, and where available, the snapshots, executable programs (PC) and perhaps even the source code. Enjoy. |
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Emulators: You need these to run most of these. The supplied links are for Windows emulators, but others exist for Linux and Mac. |
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C64 |
Tads |
Inform |
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A Day In The Life of a Tupperware Salesman |
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Adult 2 |
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Boredom |
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Can I Cheat Death? (Adult) |
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Danger! Adventurer At Work! |
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Danger! Adventurer At Work! 2 |
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Doomlords |
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Dungeon Adventure |
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Firestone |
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Gerbil Riot of '67 |
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Amstrad |
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C64 |
Tads |
Inform |
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House Out Of Town |
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Jason of the Argonauts |
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Labyrinth |
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Magician's Apprentice |
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| Pre-History |
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Prison Blues |
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Roog |
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Rouge Midget |
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Spaced Out |
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Tizpan |
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Year |
Amstrad |
Spectrum |
C64 |
Tads |
Inform |
Source |
Solution |
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Thief's Tale |
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Welladay |
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