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.
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.
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.
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
^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.
I played Sword of Kadash on a Macintosh as a kid, apparently it was a similar game:
Speaking of old Mac games, I remember one called Xyphus.
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.
This talk of old Mac games is making me extremely nostalgic.