Re: What was this game?

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@home.com>]

Is this the games?  There is a site where you can get them
still for the Apple II series.

http://www.spowers.net/Tolkien/tolkien-games/entry/lotr-eamon.html

Hope that helps.
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"Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> Does anyone know what this game was?
>
> Thanks...
>
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