# Help identify this old Mac/Apple game **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 31, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091 "2010-08-31T03:24:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/1 "2010-08-31T03:24:16Z")
I am looking for some help with the name of this old Mac/apple game. Me and a good friends used to play it on the Lab computers at college in the early 90’s, back when Mac’s had B&W monitors. The premise of the game was that you were the owner of a space capsule on the moon, you capsule had a thrust at the bottom, and you could rotate it, so you would fly from one city to another…At each city you would/could buy commodities to sell at other cities for a profit. While traveling from one city to the other you could salvage old space capsules. you also had other ships firing at you, and you could get weapons as well. The end of the game came if you could find he 5 or 6 I.C.E. things (control crytals??) Can anyone help me whith the name of this game Straight Dope boards (Cafe Society) have helped me find out the names of lots of old books and movies, can the Game Room help me out?? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/2 "2010-08-31T03:31:15Z")
Sneakers? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/3 "2010-08-31T03:40:06Z")
Was that **Moonbase**? It was also released as **Lunar Command** for the PC. ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/4 "2010-08-31T03:44:03Z")
Moonbase/lunar command sound familiar but I tried to look that up and it is basically a flash game of the old atari Missle command Sneakers, now that sounds like that might have been it ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/5 "2010-08-31T03:46:46Z")
I missed the damned edit window, but I found this for you to take a gander at: [http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/moonbase.htm](http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/moonbase.htm) Is that it? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/6 "2010-08-31T03:51:27Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > Sneakers, now that sounds like that might have been it Sneakers opened up IIRC with a giant very very low res (it looked like a big green penis) coming down from the top of the screen and depositing your rocket ship at the bottom of the screen. Does that sound familiar? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/7 "2010-08-31T03:52:26Z")
> [@Kylede](#): > > Moonbase/lunar command sound familiar > but I tried to look that up and it is basically a flash game of the old atari Missle command > > Sneakers, now that sounds like that might have been it Sneakers was a shooter, like Space Invaders, and was released in 1981 for the Apple 2. I used to own this game. 🙂 > **[Sneakers (1981 video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(Apple_video_game))** > > Sneakers is a fixed shooter video game for the Apple II written by Mark Turmell and published by Sirius Software in 1981. A version for Atari 8-bit computers was released the same year. Sneakers was Turmell's first published game. He was later the lead designer and programmer of 1993's NBA Jam. > The player uses either the paddles or the keyboard to move a ship left or right across the bottom of the screen while shooting or evading enemies. If an enemy destroys the ship, a much larger mothership w... ETA: I found this huge list of Apple 2 games at wiki. It might be in there or there might be a corresponding Macintosh games list somewhere. > **[Category:Apple II games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Apple_II_games)** > > This category contains video games for Apple II computers. > This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. > The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 794 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. EATA: the original Lode Runner is still a favorite of mine. I used to make some wicked levels. ---
**Author:** ![Kylede](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kylede](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kylede)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-identify-this-old-mac-apple-game/552091/8 "2010-08-31T04:27:39Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > > [@Kylede](#): > > > > Sneakers, now that sounds like that might have been it > > Sneakers opened up IIRC with a giant very very low res (it looked like a big green penis) coming down from the top of the screen and depositing your rocket ship at the bottom of the screen. > Does that sound familiar? Yes that does, but when you look up “Sneakers” it sends you to a “Space invaders” type shooter game released in 1981. It is obviously not that. The “big green penis” oddly enough sounds familiar. I think it was called “sneakers” becasue you were a smuggler, sneaking past the , maybe computer controled defence systems, until you could fix the system…The more I talk about it the more that comes back. Can Anyone find a mod of it for maybe a screen shot?