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[Cebus Capucinis]

Okay, I got ADT + Asimov working. HUZZAH! Now just like the Atari 8bits I'm asking users for input as to what are 'must plays'. I have some stuff on disk already, but there's a ton of software on these Asimov Archives I have never seen! So what, in your opinion, is an absolute must-play for the Apple //e?

I've already played/gotten:
Wizardry I (though I can't get it to work properly, still working on it)
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego
Hardball
Ghostbusters

of course all the arcade classics are must-play for me, but what else?

EDIT: Just clicking through the archives I am absolutely FLOORED at the amount of games in here!!! WHOA! This feels just like when I got my Atarimax flashcart and started clicking on sites like Fandal and AtariOnline..... I could play a different game every day and it would take YEARS!!!!

This is almost "no more modern gaming for me" time! I have so much to catch up on! LOL

[Tempest]

In no particular order:

Wasteland
Bards Tale I-III
Wizardry I-V
Ultima I-V (although I and II are pretty weak)
Airheart
Prince of Persia
Lode Runner
Mr. Robot
Karateka
Kings Quest I-IV
Space Quest I & II
Manhunter
Police Quest
Infocom games
Centauri Alliance
Mr. Do
Drol
Goonies
Wings of Fury
Rescue Raiders
Evolution
Mario Bros (great version)
Crisis Mountain
Miner II (odd but worth a play)
Stellar 7
Times of Lore
Family Feud / Jeopardy
AE
Hard Hat Mack
Pipe Dream

I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that come to mind off the top of my head. I'll look through my collection tonight.

Tempest

[Cebus Capucinis]

Thanks Tempest! I knew you would come up with a solid and long list of stuff that I would enjoy! Wasteland was def. one of the first on my list, I loved that game on the PC.

I will probably go through it meticulously like I do with Fandal, and just alphabetically try everything to see what my favorites are, but in case I run into a streak of bad games and get discouraged I like to have a list of "good" ones to get me back in the swing of it!

Is Goonies a significantly different game or is it a port to/from A8? I really enjoy the A8 version but I think with the Apple //'s vibrant colors I will want to give it a whirl.

[Tempest]

Cebus Capucinis, on Thu Apr 8, 2010 12:27 PM, said:

Thanks Tempest! I knew you would come up with a solid and long list of stuff that I would enjoy! Wasteland was def. one of the first on my list, I loved that game on the PC.

I will probably go through it meticulously like I do with Fandal, and just alphabetically try everything to see what my favorites are, but in case I run into a streak of bad games and get discouraged I like to have a list of "good" ones to get me back in the swing of it!

Is Goonies a significantly different game or is it a port to/from A8? I really enjoy the A8 version but I think with the Apple //'s vibrant colors I will want to give it a whirl.

I just finished playing Wasteland on the Apple II this weekend. I like the Apple version best for some reason (probably because it's the one I grew up with)

Goonies is the same game, just different graphics (Apple colors)

Some more games to look for:

Conan
Millionware (odd trivia game)
Swashbuckler
The Bilestoad
Hacker
Apple Cider Spider
Summer Games
Winter Games
South Pacific Quest (love this game, very hard but amazing)
Gemstone Warrior

Tempest

[Chris Leach]

My favorite game on the Apple was that ghostbusters game...could not get away from it no matter what!

[Cebus Capucinis]

I don't like the lack of voice when your guy gets slimed in the Apple // version though. I always loved missing the trap and hearing "HE SLIMED ME!"....on my original Apple // disk it's just this weird muffled "WAGH" noise. Very strange to me!

To me the C64 version will always be my favorite Ghostbusters version.

[Tempest]

Cebus Capucinis, on Thu Apr 8, 2010 12:43 PM, said:

I don't like the lack of voice when your guy gets slimed in the Apple // version though. I always loved missing the trap and hearing "HE SLIMED ME!"....on my original Apple // disk it's just this weird muffled "WAGH" noise. Very strange to me!

To me the C64 version will always be my favorite Ghostbusters version.

The Apple II version had the worst 'voice' at the beginning. I swear to god it sounded like a demon trying to escape from the computer. I still don't know what it says, it sounds like "(grabled) Come on! Hahahaha"

Some other games to look into:

Castle Wolfenstein
Bruce Lee
Kings Bounty (one of my favorite)
Marble Madness (slow enough that I can actually beat it)
Arkanoid (ditto)
Spy vs Spy
Rampage
Tass Times in Tone Town (great game!)
Thexder (yep the Apple got a version of it)


Tempest

[BassGuitari]

Some of my favorites:

Voodoo Castle
Aquatron
Stargate
Choplifter
Miner 2049er
Akalabeth
Mario Bros.
Pooyan
Brick-Out
Sabotage (I've only played this in emulation, though...still don't have a copy)

There are probably others...I've got piles of floppies I've hardly touched in forever.

[unhuman]

Aztec

[Cebus Capucinis]

Copying me some Wasteland disks right now.... Can't wait to play it again!

[Ransom]

Regarding Wizardry, did you write protect the boot side before playing? That must be done or it'll be hosed.

Some of my favorite, obscure Apple ][ games:

Bouncing Kamungas
Taipan
BOLO
Sabotage
Alter Ego
Earth Orbit Stations

[Tempest]

Captain Goodknight
Dark Heart of Uukrul
Bolo
Seven Cities of Gold


Tempest

[Cebus Capucinis]

Yeah, I wrote-protected both disks (I'm putting the boot disk as 1 disk and the scenario disk as another), then swapped them out, then got to the main menu to select where to go after starting a game....but then the keyboard dies. I can't hit anything to go to the Adventurer's Guild or anywhere...

[Koopa64]

In absolutely no order. I post them as they roll off the top of my head.

Donkey Kong
Mario Bros.
Captain Goodnight
The Odyssey
Apple Cider Spider
Gremlins
Sammy Lightfoot
Montezuma's Revenge
Choplifter
Snoopy (can't remember the whole title)
BC's Quest for Tires

That's all I can remember for right now. I should play more Apple][, even if it's on an emulator.

[wood_jl]

What's the one with the little motorcycle? I'm not talking about a fast-paced action/arcade game. It was a super-simple kid's game, and one of the first I remember playing in elementary school. You told it the speed or how many cars you wanted to jump (or something like that) and it would draw a little motorcycle scrolling and then jumping the cars or buses or whatever they were. I can't remember the name. This is from back in the days when Oregon Trail was a hot commodity, so we're not talking about a sophisticated game here. It (and Oregon Trail) are of course the first computer games I remember seeing. If only I could remember the name!!!!

[Ransom]

Cebus Capucinis, on Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:10 PM, said:

Yeah, I wrote-protected both disks (I'm putting the boot disk as 1 disk and the scenario disk as another), then swapped them out, then got to the main menu to select where to go after starting a game....but then the keyboard dies. I can't hit anything to go to the Adventurer's Guild or anywhere...

Hmm. Not even the Edge of Town? IIRC, some of them don't work until you have a party of characters. But Edge of Town should always work. And I think the tavern should always work as well.

(You do have a scenario duplicate disk, right?)

[Cebus Capucinis]

Scenario duplicate? I have the Wizardry Boot and a Wizardry Scenario disk. Do I need a third duplicate disk???

[JamesD]

Some of the games you would have had in your collection no matter what.
They aren't always the best but it seems like every Apple owner I knew had them.

Gorgon - It's just a defender clone but with it's own twists.
Appleoids - Apple's unique twist on Asteroids.
Choplifter
Apple Panic - I'm noticing a trend here
Space Eggs - Sirius software is always good.
<edit>
Alien Rain

Some unique Apple games you might like:
Captain Goodnight
SunDog

Edited by JamesD, Thu Apr 8, 2010 4:14 PM.

[NightSprinter]

I remember this one game on the Apple called "Monster Maze". It was a 2D game where you had to collect these red squares while avoiding the green ones (the monsters). If you picked up a purple one, you could kill them (don't return for the rest of the level). It also had a level editor where you could change the layout of the area however you wanted.

[Tempest]

Dino Eggs is another good one I forgot about (or Dino Smurf if you prefer).

Tempest

[Keatah]

It would seem my favorite list is too long to type up, besides it would be incomplete as I tend to jump from one game to the next and I don't remember all of them at once! But the *most* common thing is that the games tended to be action oriented and most all had a length of 90-190 sectors (According to the disk][ catalog command) and were BRUN files. hot damn!! brun files! imagine that!

[akator]

A few years back I compiled a list of my favorites along with ones I had to finally get around to playing.

Adventure
Adventure in Time
AE
Airheart
Akalabeth
Ali Baba
Alice in Wonderland
Alien Typhoon
Alivader
Alkabeth
Alter Ego
Apple IITrek
Apple Panic
Aquatron
Archon
Arkanoid
Arkanoid II
Asteroid Field
Autobahn
Aztec
Balance of Power
Bandits
Bard’s Tale II
Battle Chess
Beany Bopper
Below the Root
Beyond Castle Wolfenstein
Bilestoad
Blade of Blackpoole
Blazing Paddles
Bolo
Both Barrels
Boulder Dash
Bounce It
Bouncing Kamungas
Breakout
Brick Out
Broadsides
Bruce Lee
Bubble Bobble
Bubble Ghost
Call to Arms
Cannonball Blitz
Captain Goodnight
Castle Smurfenstein
Castle Wolfenstein
Cat Fur
Cat Send
Cavern Creatures
Caverns of Freitag
Centaiuri Alliance
Chessmaster
Chessmaster 2000
Choplifter
Choplifter II
Chopper Command
Computer Baseball
Conan
Continuum
Copy II
Country Carnival
Cribbage
Crisis Mountain
Critical Mass
Cross Country Canada
Crypt of Medea
Cyber Strike
Cyclod
Dark Forest
Dark Heart of Uukrul
David's Midnight Magic
Deadly Duck
Death Sword
Deluxe Music Construction Set
Dot Gobbler
Dr. J & Larry Bird One on One
Drol
Eamon games (1-242)
Earth Orbit Stations
Echo
Eliminator
Elite
Empire Wargame of the Century
Epoch
Escape from Rungistan
Falcons (Blacksmith Market)
Fantastic Voyage
Fast Eddie
Flash Gordon
Flight Sim II
Flight Simulator
Floppy
Galactic Empires
Galaxians
GBBS
Gemstone Warrior
Gorgon
Gruds in Space
Hadron
Hard Hat Mack
Horizon V
Human Fly
Infiltrator
John Madden Football
Journey
Kabul Spy
Karateka
Kidd Nikki
King’s Quest II / Space Quest II
Kings Quest I
Kings Quest II
Kings Quest III
Kung Fu
Lady Tut
Legacy of the Ancients
Lemonade Stand
Locksmith
Loderunner
Lords of Conquest
Lurking Horror
Marble Madness
Masquerade
Math Blaster
Maze Construction Set
Microzine
Might and Magic I
Miner 2049er
Mini Dung Beetles
Mission Mixup
Montezuma's Revenge
Moon Patrol
Neptune
Net Works BBS
Neuromancer
Night Mission Pinball
Night Stalker
Nightcrawler
Nightmission
Number Munchers
Odell Lake
Olympic Decathlon
One on One
OO Troops
Orbitron
Oregon Trail
Outpost
Phantom’s Five
Pinball Construction Set
Pitfall II
Plasmania
Prince of Persia
Puckman
Pulsar II
Raiders of the Lost Ring
Raster Blaster
Reach for the Stars
Repton
Rescue Raiders
Robot War
Robotron 2084
Rocky's Boots
Sabotage
Sammy Lightfoot
Saturn Navigator
Scott Adams' Adventure Games
Sea Dragon
Serpentine
Seven Cities of Gold
Shanghai
Sherwood Forest
Shufflepuck Cafe
Silent Service
Skyfox
Snack Attack
Snake Byte
Sneakers
Snoggle
South Pacific Quest
Space Adventure
Space Eggs
Space Quest II
Space Raiders
Space Vikings
SpaceMaster X-7
Spare Change
Spy Hunter
Spy’s Demise
Star Blazer
Star Cruiser
Star League Baseball
Star Maze
Star Mine
Star Thief
Star Trek
Star Trek Strategic Operations Simulator
Stellar 7
Strip Poker
Struggle for Guadalcanal
Sundog
Super Bunny
Super Taxman 2
Swashbuckler
Sword of Kadash
Taipan
Tapper
Taxman
The Earth Dies Screaming
The Halley Project
The Quest
Thexter
Threshold
Track Attack
Transylvania
Trilogy
Turmoil
Type Attack
Ultima
Ultima II
Ultima III
Ultima IV
Up 'n Down
Voodoo Mansion
Wasteland
Wavy Navy
Wayout
Where in America’s Past is Carmen Sandiego
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego
Windwalker
Wings of Fury
Winter Olympics
Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Wizardy V
Worm War I
Wraith
Wrecking Ball
Zany Golf
Zork
Zork III
Zork Zero

That should keep you busy for a while. I haven't gotten through more than 1/3 of the list since I put the list together

[S1500]

Aztec by far. Captain Goodnight & Rescue Raiders. RR was to me a more complex version of Choplifter.

[thegoldenband]

In addition to those already mentioned, I had a good time playing through The Tracer Sanction some years back.

Also, if you ever run across the "give napoleon to Napoleon" game, let me know!

[Keatah]

I don't recall a game titled "give napoleon to napoleon", that would seem to be an action you take in another adventure/role playing type games of a sorts?


http://ask.metafilte...or-and-Napoleon

??

Edited by Keatah, Thu Apr 8, 2010 8:30 PM.