Re: where's "Frozen Land"?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article aw133@lafn.org (James Poore) writes...

>In a previous article, dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) says:
> 
>>Urs Schaffner (u.schaffner@swissonline.ch) wrote:
>>: Does anyone remeber the game "Frozen Land" for the AppleII? I had
>>: it once on a disk but then the disk got damaged. If you happen to
>>: have it I would greatly apprecciate it if you would e-mail it to me
>>: or thell me where I can find it. I didn't find it anywhere on the
>>: Internet. I tried Asimov.
>>
>>: The game was: You are a box with a face, and arms and legs, and you
>>: jump diagonally around on steps of a pyramid. When you touched a
>>: step, it changed its color. When every step was done, you finished
>>: the level. There were some kind of fish rushing by that you shouldn't
>>: touch, otherwise you melted down and lost a life. At times there
>>: entered some kind of spring from the top where you entered at the
>>: beginning of each life/level, that threatened your life, too. Below
>>
>>Hmmm...Never heard of it, but it sounds like a Q*Bert clone...
> 
>Yeah, it does, but I have a similar game, but it may be called Q-burt 
>(not q-bert which is copyrighted) or something else and runs only on a GS.
>I would have to dig it up, but If I have it, Ican send you a copy.
>E-mail me for more info

    I have the above game (somewhere in my collection of disks) 
and it is indeed a Q-Bert clone. There were better ones though, 
my favorite for the Apple II was "Cubit" from Micromax. While 
it is fairly close to the arcade version, these days if I feel
like playing it I'll use the arcade emulator, MAME. It's not
just close to the original, it _is_ the original. :-)

    Speaking of Cubit, I believe it was reclassified as public
domain software. There's a copy of it on GEnie's "Best of 8-bit
Games" from January 1992. 

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca