Top Ten Adventures @~To register your votes, just send in your choices, number them @~1st to 10th and preferably give brief comments on why you voted @~for each game. 10 points are awarded for 1st place down to 1 @~point for 10th place. ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~This issue's Top Ten comes from Bev Truter in Australia. Bev @~says: Sue - here's my list of favourite games. WARNING! Hardened RPG addicts stop reading now; you'll only end up confused, horrified or dismayed, as there's not a single RPG in sight. 1. Red Moon No, it wasn't the first text adventure I ever played,but the one I enjoyed the most. 2. Zork 2 Yes, I know it's ancient, but still one of my all-time favourites. 3. Emerald Isle May be old for everyone else, but I only acquired and played it about 2 years ago. 4. Price of Magik Totally absorbed me for about 4 months. I used to DREAM about the House, and the suspense generated when playing it kept my fingernails relentlessly chewed down to their shortest length ever. 5. Dunjin (PD 375) Love at first sight when I started this game about 18 months ago - finally finished it a week ago. Well....with a 10-month rest in between. 6. Unkuulian Unventures 1 & 2 Two wonderfully humourous, long and complex spoofs of all the truly great adventures, done very affectionately. 7. Zork 1 Had to put this classic somewhere in my list; #7 sounds about right. The first game to reveal how good text adventures could be. 8. Lords of Time Another oldie but goodie from Level 9. 9. Oklib's Revenge Just when I thought there were no more good text adventures around....and she's not too bad as an editor, either. @~ (Aww, thanks, Bev! ... Sue) 10. Enchanted Castle Couldn't decide between these two Castle Elsinore medium-sized, medium difficulty little (PD 194 & 716) gems - both games to get "lost" in. Oops. Forgot to squeeze Multi-Dimensional Thief in somewhere, so I'll give it an honourable mention as an almost-made-it at # 11. Multi-Dimensional Thief This game is based on a single highly original concept - kept me intrigued for hours...days...weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~The running total for 1994 is: 52 pts Dungeon Master 22 pts Civilization, Monkey Island I 21 pts Chaos Strikes Back 19 pts Day of the Tentacle 17 pts Eye of the Beholder II 15 pts Frontier:Elite 2, Captive 14 pts Ultima V, Unnkulian series 13 pts Monkey Island 2 12 pts Bloodwych, Uninvited 11 pts Emerald Isle 10 pts World of Xeen (Clouds and Darkside), Lords of Time, Excuse Me..., Level 9 adventures, Eye of the Beholder Sam and Max, Lancelot, Red Moon 9 pts Simon the Sorcerer, Lemmings 2, Amberstar, Ishar, Silicon Dreams, Zork 2 8 pts Railroad Tycoon, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Cadaver, Ultima VII, Legend, Ishar 2, Syndicate, Beneath a Steel Sky. Time and Magik 7 pts Chaos (PD), Bard's Tale 1, Journey, Dungeon Adventure Eye of the Beholder II, Knightmare, Jewels of Darkness Price of Magik 6 pts Drakkhen, Space Quest 3, Xenomorph, Hitchhiker's Guide, Faery Tale Adventure, Humbug, Heimdall, Mountains of Ket, Ingrid's Back, Dunjin 5 pts Obscure Naturalist, Hammer of Grimmold, Operation Stealth, BAT II, Shadowgate, Pool of Darkness, Black Crypt, Multi-dimensional Thief, Gabriel Knight, Gnome Ranger 4 pts Wizard's Crown, Deja Vu, Abandoned Places, Jacaranda Jim, Shadowlands, Scapeghost, Zork 1 3 pts WYSIWYG, Trinity, Betrayal at Krondor, Dungeons and Dragons (ASCII version), The Immortal, QFG4:Shadows of Darkness, Oklib's Revenge 2 pts Return to Zork, Future Wars, Eye of the Beholder III, Deja Vu II, Space Quest, Golden Fleece, Four Symbols, The Test, Liberation:Captive 2, Space Quest series, Dracula 1 pt Larry 2, Another World, Larry 1, Pirates, Space Quest 2, Helvera, Planetfall 1/2 pt Enchanted Castle, Castle Elsinore (Votes so far by Alex van Kaam, Greg Lord, Brian Burke, BMK, David Stocks, James Judge, Paul Vincent, Grimwold, James Jillians, Steve McGuire, John Moore, Phil Richmond and Bev Truter) ------------------------------------------------------------------ @~The all-time SynTax Polls, which are updated each issue as new @~votes come in, or readers amend their votes, are as follows: 128 pts Dungeon Master 48 pts Chaos Strikes Back 41 pts Lurking Horror 39 pts Enchanter 38 pts Secret of Monkey Island 1 33 pts Wishbringer 32 pts Trinity 29 pts Lemmings 2 28 pts Leather Goddesses 25 pts Loom 24 pts Eye of the Beholder II 22 pts Guild of Thieves, Civilization 21 pts Planetfall, Captive, Beyond Zork 20 pts Eye of the Beholder I, HHGTTG, Sorcerer Bard's Tale 1, Monkey Island 2, Lords of Time 19 pts Red Moon, Day of the Tentacle 18 pts Demon's Winter 17 pts Jinxter 16 pts Ultima IV, Zork 2 15 pts Frontier:Elite 2, Stationfall 14 pts Price of Magik, Ultima VII, Ultima V, Unnkulian Series 13 pts Ingrid's Back, Humbug, Xenomorph, Infidel, Journey 12 pts Larry 3, Uninvited, Bloodwych, Legend 11 pts Phantasie III, Spellbreaker, Manhunter San Francisco, Eye of the Beholder III, Emerald Isle 10 pts Crusaders of the Dark Savant, World of Xeen (Clouds and Darkside), Excuse Me, Level 9 Adventures, Sam and Max, Lancelot 9 pts Drakkhen, Ishar 1, Amberstar, Simon the Sorcerer, Pirates, Jacaranda Jim, Fish, Silicon Dreams 8 pts Zak McKracken, Bard's Tale III, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Railroad Tycoon, Cadaver, Dungeon Adventure, Four Symbols, Ishar 2, Syndicate, Beneath a Steel Sky, Time and Magik 7 pts Corruption, Sorcerer, Deja Vu 1, Operation Stealth, Knightmare, Chaos (PD), Jewels of Darkness 6 pts Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes, Space Quest 3, Faery Tale Adventure, Larry 2, Heimdall, Mountains of Ket, Zork I, Dunjin 5 pts Obscure Naturalist, Ultima Underworld 2, Darkseed, Ultima Underworld 1, Manhunter New York, Dragonflight, Sleeping Gods Lie, Hammer of Grimmold, Bard's Tale 2, Suspect, Shadowgate, BAT 2, Pool of Darkness, Black Crypt, Space Quest 1, Multi-Dimensional Thief, Gabriel Knight, Gnome Ranger 4 pts Might and Magic III, Wonderland, Rigel's Revenge, Zork Zero, Abandoned Places, Wizard's Crown, Shadowlands, Scapeghost 3 pts Fool's Errand, Mortville Manor, Cortizone, Ballyhoo, Jade Stone, Witness, WYSIWYG, Betrayal at Krondor, Future Wars, Dungeons and Dragons (ASCII), The Immortal, QFG4:Shadows of Darkness, Oklib's Revenge 2 pts Keys of the Wizard, Spellcasting 101, Infestation, Legend of the Sword, Camelot, Bureaucracy, Deja Vu 2, Return to Zork, Golden Fleece, The Test, Space Quest series, Dracula 1 pt Colossal (Level 9), Plundered Hearts, Wizard's Tower, Jade Stone, Football Director II, Larry 1, Helvera, Another World, Space Quest 2, Liberation:Captive 2, (Votes by Alex van Kaam, Neil Shipman, Alan Beer, Mark Bradshaw, Sue, Colin Campbell, Graham Wheeler, Kathy Taylor, Ian Taylor, David Stocks, Roy Sims, Theo Clarke, Matthew Pegg, Steve Cook, Grue, Steve McLaren, James Judge, James Jillians, Mongoose, Greg Lord, Brian Burke, BMK, Paul Vincent, Grimwold, Steve McGuire, John Moore, Phil Richmond, Bev Truter) - o -