Re: Your favorite Apple II game?

[Carrington <look@message.for.address>]

Infocom text adventures, particularly when you have the full packaging
with all the "feelies," would rank near the top for me. Having recently
(re-)acquired an Apple IIe I've begun collecting these again. I'm
currently playing through Ballyhoo, with the Zork series "on deck" for
when I'm done that.

As for more "arcadey" games, my vote goes to Lode Runner: strategy,
action, *and* a level making tool makes this a tough to beat package.

My all-time favorite Apple II gaming experience, though, was with a
title that could barely be considered a game at all: Portal, published
by Activision. It's more of an interactive novel than a game, but it
*captivated* me.

The premise is this: you're an astronaut recently returned from a solo
deep-space mission to find that the entire population of Earth has
vanished. Landing and looking around, you discover they'd all moved
underground years ago for some reason ... but they've vanished from
there, too. As you wander the empty underground corridors you discover
a single computer terminal still working: a "story teller" named Homer
that may be a bit unstable. As you uncover files and facts from the
slowly awakening global network, Homer helps you piece together the
tale of where every other human has gone ... and why.

Come on, how can you resist a premise like that? You *can't*, that's
how. ;-)

Naturally, a nice complete box of Portal was the very first title I
sought when I started collecting Apple II games again.