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[Keatah]

Streck, on Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:37 PM, said:

I see a lot of familiar titles in this thread. But what about the lesser-known games, the weird ones, splurted out by some eccentric bedroom programmer and then forgotten?

Here are some of the ones I knew and loved. I've yet to find a single person besides myself that remembers them. I haven't seen them mentioned here - even in that long list that akator posted. And I'd bet that a lot of them were exclusive to the Apple II.

I remember each of those, heck, I have both the original and the pirated versions, still, in my treasure chest of apple II stuff. I liked flip-out and frenzy the best of those you listed.. Actually there are so many apple II games I like they're too numerous to list.

[BydoEmpire]

Retrogaming Roundup does their Top 10 Apple ][ games this month - fun listen.

It wasn't one of the titles they picked, but it did job my memory about a game I loved but completely forgot about: Star Fleet I. I played this SO much back in the day.



http://www.mobygames...-the-war-begins

Edited by BydoEmpire, Tue Aug 31, 2010 5:24 PM.

[roadrunner]

Some more good games nobody listed here yet -

Dung Beetles
Frogger II Threeedeep
Jawbreaker
Minature Golf

Edited by roadrunner, Thu Sep 2, 2010 10:05 PM.

[Keatah]

A lot of the Atarisoft stuff. I sware that atari knew of a special hidden graphics chip that no one else knew about. I loved all these games. And they were reasonably good considering that Apple II has no such thing as a graphics processor. Not even as basic as the TIA or anything.

[Streck]

*duplicate post, sorry!*

Edited by Streck, Thu Feb 2, 2012 9:10 AM.

[Keatah]

As an avid apple gamer back in the day, I remember them all.

[magnusfalkirk]

Here's one that started out as shareware and is now free that is worth getting: http://webpages.milw.../silverncastle/ the author actually came up with the game because of Sir-Tech saying that a game like Wizardry couldn't be done in Applesoft basic. I'm currently playing through it on my Apple //c+. Fun game.

Dean

[potatohead]

Very cool! Thanks for linking that one.

[Keatah]

Sirius Software had 2 games, Phantoms Five and Gorgon, while introduced later in the market, 1980-1982, they were my first introduction to big-screen color gaming on the Apple 2 series. Phantoms Five had glorious multi-color buildings that scrolled. And the "3-D" part was a shocker when I first encountered it. Fantastic!