Re: Worst Games Ever

["Tony Turner" <tturner@telusplanet.net>]

"Don" <coach41@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Hope all is well!  We all usually tend to ask "what was the Best
> Software/Hardware/etc ever for the Apple II...", I'd like to take a
> different approach.  Namely, what were the worst games you ever played
> on your Apple II?
>
> We all have great memories of our Apple II computers but I'm sure we
> all remember some duds that had us saying "what the heck were they
> thinking?"
>
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Since graphics themselves didn't always indicate a crappy game (witness Loderunner or Droll
or Spare Change, for example); I think I'll just go for 'worst disappointment' in an Apple II
game.  At the back of one of the many Apple II mags (at the time - late 80's) was an advert
for a game called (IIRC) "PHM: Pegasus".  Just reading the description of the game (OK,
simulation) made me drool and itch to play it.  The picture in the advert was great,
everything sounded wonderful. Alas - I didn't have the money back then to 'waste' on buying
games (raising kids and juggling the bills took much of our resources - but that's life...);
so I filed it in the back of my mind as an 'Oh Well!' thing and kept on keepin' on. About
half a year later, I had a chance to get hold of some 'archival back-ups' of several Apple II
games that someone allowed me to try for 'testing' purposes.  Lo and behold: there was PHM:
Pegasus!!!  I was ecstatic!

Until I booted it up and tried it.  What a piece of crap.  Lousy graphics, poor colours,
pitiful game-play - the whole thing was a disaster and an unmitigated horrendous and
miserable experience.  What a let-down.  It was so bad, I was tempted to write to the company
and express my disbelief that they could foist something this awful on an un-suspecting
public - especially when I knew they could do sooooo much better (but in a different medium,
of course!).  Common-sense prevailed, since my 'testing' was not being done on a commercially
obtained floppy, so no letter; but at least one good thing came out of that experience: I was
so freakin' HAPPY I hadn't spent scarce funds on this disgusting excuse for a game.  Now
that's what I call a 'worst disappointment'!

-Tony T.