showing 6 games
| name | publisher(developer) | year arrow_downward | description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | Apple Pugetsound Program Library Exchange | 1978 | Before the famous graphical version of The Oregon Trail was this plain text version. | labelminimizeminimize |
| Oregon | Crystalware | 1981 | Long before (3 years) MECC decided to bring their Oregon Trail graphical game to Apple II, Crystalware ported and published the older (1971) text version of MECC's game on the Apple II. | labelminimizeminimize |
| COMPUTE!'s Guide to Adventure Games | COMPUTE! | 1984 | Play as an employee of COMPUTE! Magazine searching for a lost copy of [i]Crowther & Woods' ADVENTURE[/i]. The magnetic media is an abandon building in Manchester, New Hampshire (a real place). The type-in source code for this game was including in [i]COMPUTE!'s Guide to Adventure Games[/i] | labelminimizeminimize |
| The Dallas Quest | Datasoft | 1984 | Based on the series of TV miniserieses collectively know under the title, [i]Dallas[/i]. You play a private investigator hired by Sue Ellen. She wants to collect some oil fields of her own to get rich and leave J.R. [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
| The Oregon Trail | MECC;UpTime (MECC) | 1985 | An historical simulation of the Oregon Trail journey that killed a lot of pioneers. Plan your trip, buy supplies. When you run out along the way, mine for metals and hunt for meat. Attempt river crossings or convert your wagon to a boat and ride the river. You and your family will most likely die. If you played the game and the tombstone of a deceased party member read "peperony and chease", then you were playing a pirated version. UpTime magazine licensed this game for publishing. | labelimagesubject |
| Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar | Origin | 1985 | [52]*** [48]***Comes on two 5.25" disks. The Ultima series continued to innovate with the release of each game in the series. With this 4th game, the genre was taken to bran new places. There is no evil big bad enemy to defeat, and the point of the game is not to take advantage of people to get stuff to go defeat the enemy. Rather, the point of the game is for the main character to become a champion of virtue. The goals are literally honesty, humility, honor, spirituality, valor, justice, compassion, sacrifice, courage, truth, and love. Actions, inactions, even words can have less than apparent unhelpful or helpful consequences. Yes, there are still monsters to fight and treasures to find, but this makes up less than 1/8th of the game and the care and purpose in handling these things is more important than the end result. The [i]Ultima IV Construction Set[/i], [b]not official[/b], was available not long after the game's release. While the title would suggest it is a legitimate level editor, the package is in fact an illegal bootleg of Ultima IV. It even includes digital versions of all materials of the game. This overly complete violation of copyright does also include a level editor. [Zerothis] | labelimagesubject |
