Trying to identify a few Apple IIe games

[Trying to identify a few Apple IIe games]

Someone very kindly responded to my post via E-mail, and I feel obliged to reply here with the solutions to this riddle.

 

Game A is possibly Chalice of Mostania.
http://gue.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?pub=2&item=10&id=2&key=0

 

Game B appears to be "Catapult Capers" from MECC's Conquering Ratios and Proportions.
https://archive.org/details/MECC-A209_Conquering_Ratios_and_Proportions

 

Games C and D correspond to "Mazes of Rodentia" and "Queen Bee of Menta", the two components of MECC's Mind Puzzles. It so happens that it's been on archive.org as of July, but as it was not in 4am's extensive collection, I would not have come across it.
https://archive.org/details/MECC-A780_Mind_Puzzles_v1.0

[Trying to identify a few Apple IIe games]

I've been following the 4am Twitter feed with great eagerness lately, as he managed to come up with one game I've not seen since Grade 1 of elementary school. With the explosion of the collection on archive.org , I'm thinking I might have missed the release of some games that I've been searching for many, many years.

 

Hence this thread. I'm going to copy and paste a bit from this old DP thread.

 

Mystery Game A - First person adventure game, set in medieval times where first you had to get into a castle or something. What I remember most is at the end the main objective was to get a jeweled chalice. It wasn't some huge expansive game (as few of these are) and it was aimed at the grade school age set.

Mystery Game B - This game featured a behind a catapult perspective. A target would be positioned along with wind direction, then you'd input the settings and aiming and attempt to hit the target. This could have been a game that was part of an edutainment title that would come up after doing math problems or something similar - I just don't remember.

 

Mystery Game C - This was an educational game that literally consisted of nothing more than wandering through a maze. You were allowed to take one navigational aid with you. Taking muddy boots would mean you would leave a set of footprints as you moved from room to room, while taking a ball of yarn would depict your character as a ball of yarn. Taking a map or a piece of chalk would show your character in its true form: a mouse. Different skill levels were available; one of them would award you the title of "Knight of Cheddar" when you completed the maze.

Mystery Game D - You would be shown a couple of different patterns of bees, and then be instructed to input a set of symbols. You would then see how the bees react to that set of symbols. The idea was of course to find the set of symbols that would cause the bees to react according to the pattern you were originally shown. This was probably one game in a collection of games.

 

Do these sound familiar at all?

[Pause Music Differences in CBS version of Mr. Do?]

Whoops, I was indeed thinking about Omega Race. How did that happen? Yikes.

[Pause Music Differences in CBS version of Mr. Do?]

Well, phooey. I must be thinking of something else – unless there's a third version of the game out there somewhere. (Could there be?) Thank you very much for that information, anyway; you saved me from a great deal of laborious detective work.

 

I guess I should check Omega Race.

[Pause Music Differences in CBS version of Mr. Do?]

Someone pointed

out to me just recently: when you press * during Mr. Do, the screen turns black, and the end of level fanfare plays in an endless loop.

 

I don't remember this at all from when I played Mr. Do, however! I recall that when * was pressed, the screen turned green, and a weird funky blues riff started playing. Seeing this now makes me question my memory and I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually thinking of Omega Race.

 

Does someone here have the CBS version of Mr. Do and can check the pause music? (Was this version ever dumped?)

[CBS Victory for Colecovision]

I have registered for the sole purpose of thanking Mr. Moonsweeper for finally posting this. I've been waiting for ten years for this to happen, and was starting to think the only way this rom would ever appear was if I tracked down someone with rom-dumping capabilities myself. It's just so much better than the other release that it's like an entirely different game, and it's a shame it's been rotting away in obscurity all this time.