# Videogames you think you're the only one who played **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 3, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493 "2019-03-03T18:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2019, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/162 "2019-03-16T02:04:09Z")
I have played Caverns of Khafka, Lemmings, Circus Atari and all the Infocom and Scott Adams (not of Dilbert) games. I loved Shamus and Imperium Galactica (all for the Atari 800). Other games I liked were Lucasfilm’s Behind Jaggi Lines, Gateway to Apshai, Archon, Eastern Front, Thorn Emi Soccer (possibly the one described above), Joust, Blue Max, Seven Cities of Gold and Autoduel. But these were not terribly obscure. Great games less played include The Pinball Construction Set, Pharoah’s Curse, Submarine Commander, Karateka (possibly the ninja game mentioned above), Tapper and Gunfight. Genuinely good but possibly more obscure games include Crypts of Terror (pretty sure no one else here played this), Preppie! and Miner 2049. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/163 "2019-03-17T17:28:10Z")
**Mail Order Monsters** was great. Damn you, Sluggo! Also the recycled art assets from Archon. Played a ton of **Utopia** in a friend’s Intellivision back in the day. We cooperatively considered a game “won” when we had lucrative economies and could ring the pirate ships in PT boats, eliminating any threats. Then it was time to blast one another with rebels. A friend and I both owned **Modem Wars** but it was a real pain to set up and play even if you both had modems, etc. I think we only tried it once or twice. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/164 "2019-03-17T21:03:56Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > that was one of Koei’s historical simulation series… ill top your lod with l’emperur (no im not spelling it right ) it started in the French revolution and you ended up being napoleon … > > there slowly going back to their original game style now that dynasty warriors one millionth and one isn’t selling as much as it used to > mine is pirates! and pirates! gold for the consoles yeah people played it by the hundreds of thousands on the pc but i’m the only one I know of that owned them on the NES and Sega Genesis … in fact for the sega I found it by accident for 5.99 …toys r us had 30 copies for 3 months and didn’t sell one so they were dumping them … I was overjoyed … as it fixed a ton of problems (mainly a on screen map…and a better town acreen ) My friends and i played the \*\*\*\* out of that Koei Chinese simulator. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/165 "2019-03-17T23:51:03Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > How about **Mail Order Monsters**? I played it on the C64. You selected and customized monsters and then fought them against your opponent. I seem to remember you could get like a Tyrannosaurus and put a grenade launcher on him. > > This was in the days when EA wasn’t evil. Yep. Great game. EA had some of the best C64 games. Every time I saw that cube, sphere, and pyramid loading screen, I knew I was in for something good. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/166 "2019-03-18T00:46:44Z")
alter ego femalw and male … here’s the original: > **[Alter Ego: Female](https://www.myabandonware.com/game/alter-ego-female-1r)** > > Remember Alter Ego: Female, an old video game from 1986? Download it and play again on MyAbandonware. this seems to be a remake by the original creator: [https://www.playalterego.com/](https://www.playalterego.com/) but it was a series that was a choose your life decisions from newborn to well death the original had cards you played through (i never figured out to how to graduate college ) but no real graphics The female version was better written … the male version was a quicky version with half the content ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/167 "2019-03-18T00:51:38Z")
^Yes. I do remember Alter Ego, as well. I vaguely remember playing some bits and pieces of it, but don’t remember playing through the whole thing. I probably would have only been 12 or 13 at the time, so it was aimed at a more mature audience. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/168 "2019-03-18T19:21:41Z")
How about **Temple of Apshai**? It was an early dungeon crawler, I believe I actually had it on cassette on my C64. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/170 "2019-03-18T19:51:18Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > How about **Temple of Apshai**? It was an early dungeon crawler, I believe I actually had it on cassette on my C64. I played Sword of Kadash on a Macintosh as a kid, apparently it was a similar game: > **[Game 209: Sword of Kadash (1984)](http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2016/01/game-209-sword-of-kadash-1984.html)** > > A blog in which a dedicated addict plays through all PC computer role-playing games (CRPGs), in chronological order. Speaking of old Mac games, I remember one called Xyphus. > **[Xyphus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyphus)** > > Xyphus is a role-playing video game first released in 1984. The game was designed by Skip Waller and Dave Albert, with a Macintosh version by Bob Hardy, for Penguin Software. It was the first RPG on Macintosh.\[citation needed\] It had upgraded graphics and a mouse friendly user-interface. Xyphus is pronounced, Eks-see-foose, and is the Greek word for sword. > The game takes place in the world of Arroya 10,000 years after the demon lord Xyphus was defeated, but not killed. His heart had been ripped ... Apparently it was the first RPG for the Mac. Has anyone else played it? I remember it was extremely difficult, then again I was in elementary school when I played it. Both games were by Penguin Software, who made the weird but wonderful game Transylvania. > **[Transylvania (series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transylvania_(series))** > > Transylvania was the name of a trilogy of computer games released for several home computers of the 1980s. The games were graphic adventure games created by Antonio Antiochia and produced by Penguin Software/Polarware. > In 1982, this game was released for the Apple II, followed by conversions to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64. It was later released for Macintosh in 1984, then the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS in 1985. > Released in 1985 under the title The Crimson Crown, on the same platforms ... This talk of old Mac games is making me extremely nostalgic. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=8)