Re: Trying to find a Name of a Game.

[grent@comcast.net]

grent@comcast.net wrote:
> Hi,
>  Trying to find a name of an educational, adventure type game for some
> one. Here is what he says about it.
>
> The game I was looking for.. It was a graphic/text-adventure type, like
> Sherwood Forest or Transylvania, where there was a drawn picture of the
> area you were in in the top 3/4 or so of the screen, and the bottom 1/4
> had about 4 lines of text there, where you would type commands. I
> remember it was a bit of an educational type, because there was some
> places where you could do some simple math to earn gold pieces in the
> game. Actually, I'm sure it was an educational program, because it came
> with a teacher's guide that had all the answers to the puzzles in the
> game.
>
> The story line was something like, you've crash landed on this island
> and you have to find your way off. I remember there was a water bottle
> that you had that showed up on the right(?) side of the screen, and
> every time you moved the water level would go down by one line of
> pixels. You could refill your bottle with water at a place that was
> like S, E, E, E from the starting point. You couldn't die in the game,
> if you screwed up or ran out of water, you'd pass out and wake up
> somewhere back near the beginning.
>
> Of course I don't remember the important things like what it was named
> or who made it. We never actually owned any Apple ii variety of
> computer, but my mom was a school teacher, so during the summers she
> would borrow a IIe from the school, and this was one of the programs
> that was brought home. Hmm that's all I can think of right now to
> describe it.
>
Have a bit more to add to it. and here it is. He has the Hobbit, but
that wasn't it. I'm almost certain this game didn't have any combat.
The story line in this game involved a plane crash at the beginning,
but I don't think that was any more than just introduction text
motivating stranding you on an island. I remember at the very end of
the game the last guy would give you some clues to figure out a number,
and the number was always a 3-digit palindrome like 373.. I think one
of the clues that sometimes came up was that the number was prime.

If any one has any Ideas of what it could be I will relay that
infromation back to him.

Thanks