Re: What was this game?

[c8922369@pavarotti.newcastle.edu.au (Leon Garde)]

Sheldon Simms (sheldon@semanticedge.com) wrote:
: For some reason, I started thinking about a game I used to play a lot
: right after my father got an Apple //e in 1983, and I'd like to know
: what it was...

: The game was some kind of adventure, or RPG, that had some
: features in common with what are usually called "roguelike" games.

: That is, the game displayed a level as 40-col text screen, and
: the player could move around on the screen. I vaguely remember it being
: based on Tolkien. I vaguely remember that there was a ring (maybe you
: were supposed to find the ring), and that Gollum was in the game.

: I vaguely remember that the screen looked somewhat jumbled with a lot of
: characters all over the place (representing walls? floors? items?) and
: that there were a lot of inverse and/or flashing characters used.

: I vaguely remember that the level could collapse on you if you did
: something you weren't supposed to. I don't remember there being any
: graphics of any kind. The game was not, as far as I remember, a "text
: adventure" like Zork, Eamon games, etc. The game might have been
: written in BASIC.

I remember "dungeon" was a roguelike  game, but it had lores graphics..

: Does anyone know what this game was?

I think it was a roguelike game.

you might have already said that...

A program written in basic was  not likely to be a commercial software,
the programs traded around the world but  no one know what the other side of
the world had...