Re: Your favorite Apple II game?

["Donald C. Lee" <coach41@pacbell.net>]

Hey All,

I know I've brought the subject of Apple II games up many times in years 
past on this group.  I'll be happy to contribute my thoughts again:

First game I recall having on my Apple II: Apple Panic

Arcade Type Games: Robotron 2084, Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, Rescue Raiders

Simulations: Skyfox (with Phasor Sound Card), Computer Baseball (someone 
else mentioned it...YEA), Dr. J and Larry Bird go One on One, John 
Madden Football.

Adventure: Ultima III, IV, V

I have to say that Robotron was one of the best games I played on my 
IIe.  Atari did a nice translation and despite having to play with one 
joystick, using two buttons, it was a great experience.

Computer Baseball was another old school favorite that I played for 
months and months.  It was not the most graphically advanced, but it was 
realistic.

In a funny way, two Apple II games are the precursors to several EA 
Sports franchises.

John Madden Football, originally came out on the Apple II using only 64k 
and with 11-on-11 play.  I believe it was the first graphical football 
game to do that.  Of course, the Madden football franchise rules over 
most other football games.

The One-on-One game led to Michael Jordon vs. Larry Bird, then Lakers 
vs. Celtics on the PC and I think finally to the NBA Live Franchise.


FYI, I haven't plugged my site in a while, but since everyone's here:

http://www.angelfire.com/80s/apple2/

I started this years ago to scan some game boxes I had lying around.  I 
never really finished but what I got is decent.  :D  Check it out.

Thanks,
Don


Carrington wrote:
> 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.