Re: Help remembering old text adventures

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:40:36 AM UTC-6, Ken Gagne wrote:
> I, like many others have before, would appreciate some help in recalling the names of Apple II games I played decades ago.
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> All three are text adventures that I ran on my Apple IIe prior to 1988.  I remember only isolated scenes from each:
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> - Climbing a flagpole to enter a window, with the possibility of falling and breaking your neck (game over!); vampires or werewolves were present.

Doesn't sound like Transylvania but I should recommend that you get the 128k version as it has DHGR graphics -- a very nice facelift!

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> - Giving a comb to a mermaid in a tank so she could unknot her hair.

I hope that wasn't "Ulysses and the Golden Fleece" -- That game was utter crap. 

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> - A game opening by exiting a spacecraft that has just landed on an alien planet.  There may've been caves nearby.

Not spacequest, but hey why not grab spacequest?  ;-)

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> That last one is vague enough that it probably could've been any number of games, but perhaps someone here remembers the first one or two?  I'm 95% sure they weren't Eamon adventures, as I don't recall creating a character or launching from an adventurers' hall.
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> My thanks to anyone who can offer suggestions.  Happy American Thanksgiving!
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> -Ken

Still in a food coma/daze.  Happy holidays Ken!

-Brendan