Zenobi Software Games - LaunchBox Games Database

A Serpentine Tale

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1993

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A Serpentine Tale is a fantasy text adventure. In this game the player takes the role of the hero from Zenobi...

A Stroll in the Bleak Forest

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Help the bear get out of the inhospitable forest of spiders and other strange creatures. Some creatures can be...

After the Dark

Commodore Amiga

Homebrew

October 17, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Part of a threesome of text adventures by the veteran text adventure writer, John Wilson. this is the second game...

Alien Research Centre

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: 4.30
Total Votes: 5

4.3

Alien Research Centre is a graphical text adventure. The player is a spacer, specifically he's a hard-up spacer,...

Alien Research Centre III

Commodore 64

Homebrew

August 7, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The game is loosely (very loosely) based on 'Alien Research Centre 1 and 2. Initially created for the ZX Spectrum...

All in a Day's Work

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1996

Community Rating: 4.80
Total Votes: 5

4.8

All In A Day's Work is a detective text adventure. The player takes the role of agent Bogosian. One morning...

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold is a text-adventure made by John Wilson and a parody of the 1982 video game...

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold is a 2019 conversion of a 1986 ZX Spectrum text adventure of the same name. It...

April 7th

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1992

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 2

2.5

April 7th is a text adventure written by Geoff Lynas and published by Zenobi Software (who published many text...

Behind Closed Doors

Commodore 64

Homebrew

May 4, 2019

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A totally light-hearted romp, featuring the mighty BALROG, who is trapped in the 'smallest' room. Together you must...

Behind Closed Doors

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 4.33
Total Votes: 6

4.3

A totally light-hearted romp, featuring the mighty BALROG, who is trapped in the 'smallest' room. Together you must...

Behind Closed Doors 0.25: The Hut

Commodore 64

Homebrew

November 19, 2020

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

A VERY short prequel to the first game in the series "Behind Closed Doors". Including this, there are now 10 games...

Behind Closed Doors 2: The Sequel

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Behind Closed Doors 2: The Sequel is the second in a series of short text adventures featuring Balrog and his...

Behind Closed Doors 3: Revenge of the Ants

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Behind Closed Doors 3: Revenge of the Ants is the third in a series of short text adventures featuring Balrog and...

Behind Closed Doors 3: Revenge of the Ants

Commodore 64

Homebrew

May 5, 2019

Community Rating: 3.17
Total Votes: 3

3.2

Hearing the SPLAT as the small furry ball hit the ground, the ants darted under the gap at the bottom of the door...

Behind Closed Doors 6

Commodore 64

Homebrew

May 19, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Balrog stood halfway down the garden path, in one hand he held a small black box and in the other a crumpled sheet...

Behind Closed Doors 7

Commodore 64

Homebrew

April 5, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

With a copy of 'The Goblin Gazzette' clutched tightly in one hand and a large, steaming mug of coffee in the other,...

Behind Closed Doors IV: Balrog's Day Out

Commodore 64

Homebrew

June 20, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Balrog's Day Out is the fourth in a series of humorous text adventures featuring the balrog and his troublesome...

Behind Closed Doors IX: Origami for Balrogs

Commodore 64

Homebrew

November 29, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

What will, unfortunately, be the last installment...or issue perhaps .. of the Balrog on the Bog series. So, while...

Behind Closed Doors: The Pandemic

Commodore 64

Homebrew

June 20, 2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Here is a light-hearted romp for these dark times... all you have to do is to help the old Balrog to survive SEVEN...

Behind Closed DoorsI: The Sequel

Commodore 64

Homebrew

May 5, 2019

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

It was a cold Autumn morning, but the 'gurgling' in Balrog's stomach had become very nearly unbearable and he knew...

Beyond El Dorado

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Beyond El Dorado is a text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by Laurence Creighton and published by...

Bog of Brit

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Bog of Brit is a fantasy themed text adventure for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum. It was developed by Ian S. Brown. It...

Brian: The Novice Barbarian

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1994

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Brian: The Novice Barbarian is a humorous text adventure. Brian Woodlouse is a typical fifteen-year-old lad, he...

Bulbo and the Lizard-King

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Bulbo and the Lizard King is a Text-Adventure, made as a parody of Tolkien's works. The player is "Bulbo" who must...

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A Gothic Nightmare

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a text adventure based on the novel by R. L. Stevenson. In this game, you play the role...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: A Gothic Adventure

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A Spectrum conversion done by the author, John "Zenobi" Wilson, himself. Our story begins in London, 1868:...

Escape from Hodgkin's Manor

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

... When you had first started out on your paper-round, the evening air had been warm and friendly but as the...

Escape to Murky Woods

Commodore 64

Homebrew

July 19, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Help Bramble, Blackberry, and Clover escape to Murky Woods in time to attend that night's music...

Folly

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1989

Community Rating: 4.78
Total Votes: 9

4.8

Agatha's Folly is a two part text adventure. The player takes the role of someone who has just become the proud...

From Out of a Dark Night Sky

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

From Out of a Dark Night Sky is a sci-fi text adventure from Zenobi Software. The game starts with a kind of...

Fuddo & Slam

Commodore 64

Homebrew

May 6, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

This sequel to An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold is about that time when Bulbo gambled away his golden ring and...

Fuddo and Slam

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

Fuddo and Slam is a parody based on The Lord of the Rings. It takes place after Bulbo gambled away his ring, and...

Fuddo and Slam 2: The Fishing-Trip

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2020

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Subtitled as "The Fishing-Trip (Brown Trout and Goblins)". Written with PunyInform V1.8. If you are a fan of Fuddo...

Lost in Time

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

February 5, 1993

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In the realms of possibility ... or so the scientists who deal in quantum physics would have us believe ... one day...

Perseus

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1993

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Perseus is a text adventure that lets you play the classic tale of how the hero of Attica amd the son of Zeus...

Ramsbottom Smith and the Quest for the Yellow Spheroid

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2018

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Ramsbottom Smith and The Quest For The Yellow Spheroid is a 2018 text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. It was...

Ramsbottom Smith and the Quest for the Yellow Spheroid

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Homebrew

2018

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Ramsbottom Smith and The Quest For The Yellow Spheroid is a 2018 text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. It was...

Retarded Creatures and Caverns

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Retarded Creatures and Caverns is a parody of the Lord of the Rings and the sequel of An Everyday Tale of a Seeker...

Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberley Mystery

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1990

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 2

3.0

It was Tuesday 3rd November, 1887. It had been a long two weeks for Holmes and Watson. Not a single case had come...

Silverwolf

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

SILVERWOLF..... it is 5000 years ago in the west of England - then known as Abolan and the inheritor of the...

Silverwolf

Commodore 64

Homebrew

December 27, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Originally created by the girls at St. Bride's School in Wales and eventually published by G.I Solfware and by...

The Amulet of Darath

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1992

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

... it was said that the amulet held the ultimate power and that once it had been returned to the hands of the king...

The Balrog and the Cat

Commodore 64

Homebrew

2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The Tale So Far .... There was nothing a BALROG enjoyed more than a 'green-cheese’ sandwich, especially one that...

The Balrog and the Cat

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The Tale So Far .... There was nothing a BALROG enjoyed more than a 'green-cheese’ sandwich, especially one that...

The Dogboy

Commodore 64

Homebrew

December 27, 2019

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Originally created by the girls at St. Bride's School in Wales and published by them and eventually by Zenobi...

The Dogboy

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1991

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In the poem "KING" by MARC PEIRSON, the subject of the poem is a monstrous and despotic glutton. Somebody who has...

The Energem Enigma

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1987

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

Part of the Extricator Trilogy and created in the Quill Adventure system. Professor Roberts can't go for one minute...

The Extricator

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: 4.00
Total Votes: 1

4.0

You must explore the star fleet command base and find Professor Roberts. There are several different sectors to be...

The House (River Software)

Commodore 64

Released

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Mornings were generally spent in the good company of a pot of coffee, some warm rolls and a copy of THE TIMES and...

The Jade Stone

Atari ST

Released

1988

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

A beautifully illustrated text and graphics adventure by Linda Wright in which you play Amora, the beautiful...

The Labours of Hercules

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

1987

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You are Hercules and have murdered your own family in a moment of weakness. To get your freedom after your crime...

The Search for the Nether Regions

Commodore 64

Homebrew

July 4, 2019

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

Originally created for the ZX Spectrum in 1994, this game was officially ported to multiple platforms as part of...

The Secret of St. Brides

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1985

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 5

3.6

The St. Brides School was a real life holiday destination in Ireland in the eighties, where grown-up women could go...

The Taxman Cometh

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1992

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"When someone fails to pay their taxes they send a letter, when a whole district fails to pay they send the...

The Weaver of Her Dreams

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1988

Community Rating: 2.25
Total Votes: 2

2.2

There's a door in your starting location. Should you open the door, the game ends. After carefully searching your...

The Wizard of Oz

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

As Dorothy after a cyclone you visit the Land of Oz and must find a way to return home to Kansas.

T'was a Time of Dread

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1992

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

T'was a Time of Dread (also spelled as 'Twas a Time of Dread) is a text adventure for the ZX Spectrum. It was...

Witch Hunt

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Released

1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

It's your own fault for being trapped in this cellar. You ignored your wives warnings not to walk in the woods near...

Zenobi Software

A Serpentine Tale

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1993

A Stroll in the Bleak Forest

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1989

After the Dark

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October 17, 2019

Alien Research Centre

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1990

4.3

Alien Research Centre III

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August 7, 2020

All in a Day's Work

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1996

4.8

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold

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1986

5.0

An Everyday Tale of a Seeker of Gold

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2019

April 7th

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1992

2.5

Behind Closed Doors

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May 4, 2019

5.0

Behind Closed Doors

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1988

4.3

Behind Closed Doors 0.25: The Hut

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November 19, 2020

5.0

Behind Closed Doors 2: The Sequel

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1988

Behind Closed Doors 3: Revenge of the Ants

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1989

Behind Closed Doors 3: Revenge of the Ants

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May 5, 2019

3.2

Behind Closed Doors 6

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May 19, 2019

Behind Closed Doors 7

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April 5, 2019

Behind Closed Doors IV: Balrog's Day Out

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June 20, 2020

Behind Closed Doors IX: Origami for Balrogs

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November 29, 2020

Behind Closed Doors: The Pandemic

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June 20, 2020

Behind Closed DoorsI: The Sequel

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May 5, 2019

5.0

Beyond El Dorado

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1995

Bog of Brit

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1990

Brian: The Novice Barbarian