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CanalboyLondon, UK.Top 100 Reviewer Member since February 15, 2016 Last visited May 24, 2024 Profile ID (TUID): yin4qf9ohkuqdbqf
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55 year old IT analyst, Wine Buff and Arsenal supporter. IF acolyte. A bit battered with pieces falling off. Lover of the Seventies and cheese. Although not cheese from the Seventies as it tends to be a bit too mouldy.
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Excellent IF Games With Unfair Puzzles - 5 items
May 18, 2017A Selection Of Enjoyable IF That Contain(s) Ridiculous Puzzles. All the games mentioned are enjoyable to me and of a very high standard...
Polls by Canalboy
The Most Humorous Scenarios /Characters in IF -
18 votes for 18 games; created August 1, 2022I was recently re-essaying Castle Ralf and if you "Cogitate" in a certain location there is a seemingly authentic sequence which appears...
Games That No-one Has Ever Knowingly Finished -
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Games With Unfair Beginnings -
23 votes for 16 games; created October 7, 2021By this I mean games that can be made unwinnable near the start or have hellish opening puzzles.
Reviews by Canalboy
The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin
March 29, 2024 "The Only Possible Prom Dress was for my part a long-awaited sequel to Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina and showcases the author's admirable..." - See the full review Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington
March 3, 2024 "On my latest Quixotic journey through the Phoenix Mainframe canon I have just completed this game and retired to Castle Moan with six..." - See the full review Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth
February 27, 2024 "Robb Sherwin once observed quite sagely about Zork that the game actively hates its player. That may well be so; in which case Quondam..." - See the full review Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington
February 10, 2024 "Avon, the 1982 game from the Phoenix stable which released fifteen very challenging pieces of old school adventuredom between 1978 and..." - See the full review Castle Ralf, by Doug Clutter and Steve Vance
January 19, 2024 "I don't know if all IF players of a certain age who witnessed the evolution and flowering of the inchoate genre from the late seventies /..." - See the full review See all 40 reviews by Canalboy
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