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Re: Your favorite Apple II game?
On 15 Jun 2005 21:28:27 -0700, "N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Naming my absolute top one would be impossible, so what I'll do is
>select one at random from my top dozen...
>
>...doo dee doo dee doo dee doo...
>
>...Paipec.
>
>Some here may not have heard of it and I'm *damn* sure that no one
>outside the currently-active A2 community would know about it. It's
>obscure but it should have been a lot more popular. You can play it at
>the virtualapple.com website.
>
>The premise is simple: catch the falling thingies with your four
>stacked platforms so they don't hit the city of Paipec. If you miss
>one, you lose one of your platforms. If you lose all platforms, you
>lose the game.
>
>It is easily one of the best Apple II games ever - it's a bit like
>Dance Dance Revolution in some ways. It's also fiendishly difficult,
>and can get very frustrating, but in a good way.
>
>If anyone does try this game at Virtual Apple, try it on one of the
>harder levels first.
>
>Next to Robotron: 2084, this is the most difficult game I've ever
>played.
so hard to pick a single game, i'll list my very favorites (all #1
equally)
sneakers
sabotage
castle wolfenstein
wizardry (proving grounds)
hard hat mack
apple cider spider