Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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..... :love: 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Leach Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 My favorite game on the Apple was that ghostbusters game...could not get away from it no matter what! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unhuman Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Aztec Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 Copying me some Wasteland disks right now.... Can't wait to play it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Captain Goodknight Dark Heart of Uukrul Bolo Seven Cities of Gold Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koopa64 Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wood_jl Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ransom Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted April 8, 2010 Author Share Posted April 8, 2010 Scenario duplicate? I have the Wizardry Boot and a Wizardry Scenario disk. Do I need a third duplicate disk??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesD Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 (edited) 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 April 8, 2010 by JamesD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightSprinter Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted April 8, 2010 Share Posted April 8, 2010 Dino Eggs is another good one I forgot about (or Dino Smurf if you prefer). Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 Aztec by far. Captain Goodnight & Rescue Raiders. RR was to me a more complex version of Choplifter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 (edited) 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.metafilter.com/61019/Which-game-has-a-museum-an-elevator-and-Napoleon ?? Edited April 9, 2010 by Keatah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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