Re: Commerical Games for Apple ][ in general...

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

chuck_morris@mindspring.com wrote:
: > Time Zone had 6 disks which was unheard of at the time.Wizardry V
: > was 9 disks I believe and so was Knights of Legend which wins the
: > award for worst disk swapping.
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--> Sightly off topic - but my wife and I played all of the
    "Wizardy" releases on the A2 (except for Werdna - weren't
    interested in the concept) up 'till Wizardy V.  We did
    play it (V) - but it was so large and unwieldy (and took
    forever to load into our RAM card) and had such a bottle-
    neck where the drunken pirate would not let you past
    unless you gave him a bottle of rum (we had to sector-
    edit `new' bottles all the time - just to get past him
    to continue playing in that area of the game); that the
    enjoyment of the Wizardry series just evaporated.

    We tried again with Wizardy VI and VII on the PC-side
    of life - which were OK - but they still had lost much
    of the magic of the earlier releases, to us.

    As to multi-disk A2 games; I remember Portal taking up
    5 disks (I think) and I loved Portal - but got bogged
    down with nothing else to pin down, explore, do; until
    that `intelligent' online advisor coughed-up another
    `clue' and after weeks and nothing changing - bye-bye
    Portal. I still remember enjoying it - until that point.

    Then there was the Bard's Tale series (and we're firmly
    convinced that `Dragon-Wars' was simply the last of the
    Bard's Tale releases). They were great.

    Then there was the Might & Magic games. We enjoyed them;
    but found that they tended to meander off into wandering
    around with little point. I seem to recall in the first
    one; finishing it (and getting a certificate from New
    World computing with our final `score'); yet not getting
    to complete some of the side-quests - like finding a
    unicorn in some other time-period; 'cuz we couldn't
    coordinate the right days, whatever; to get to that
    time period. Got to be frustrating and that's counter to
    the point of playing those games . . .

    Still, in general; we have fond recollections of many
    of the games we played on the IIe.

    Oh yeah! There was Dark Heart of Uukrul - we were really
    disappointed when we finished that one; as we'd been
    enjoying it for so long. But everyone has their own favs.
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