# Vintage Apple games **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 3, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483 "2000-11-03T00:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/1 "2000-11-03T00:28:17Z")
I’m having a severe attack of nostalgia. Back in the 80’s, I had an Apple IIe. I had the games Denby and Conan. I’m driving myself crazy trying to locate anything about these games. Has anyone ever heard of these games? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/2 "2000-11-03T00:36:25Z")
No help to ya there, Ludo… but does your name come from the Labrynth? “Ludo saaaaad…” 🙂 Great flick! ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/3 "2000-11-03T00:45:15Z")
you are correct! ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/4 "2000-11-03T00:47:37Z")
No prob, just thought I’d chime in with that. Wicked good movie. ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/5 "2000-11-03T00:49:10Z")
I know that [http://www.emuclassics.com](http://www.emuclassics.com) has it’s own section devoted to Appple ][ emulators and roms. I haven’t checked for either of those games mind you. ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/6 "2000-11-03T01:14:26Z")
Nope. It appears that either these games were lost to history, or I hallucinated the whole experience…Hmmm. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/7 "2000-11-03T02:32:34Z")
_Choplifter_ with a good Kraft joystick was a joy. ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/8 "2000-11-03T02:36:28Z")
I remember playing a game on my Apple II+ that was just a little living room that got drawn slowly on the screen, then a man that danced around to musical tones. What the hell was that? ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/9 "2000-11-03T02:40:49Z")
I never played that one, Dropzone. However, I did play one. The only thing I can remember fron it was a quote, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” You know, Sanibel, that could have been Denby. Didja have to copy code out of a book to get it to run? Denby came w/ a book full of code. ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/10 "2000-11-03T04:42:55Z")
Conan sounds familiar to me…My first Apple game was the home version of “beserk”. I remember Choplifter, totally. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/11 "2000-11-03T05:20:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SanibelMan \* > \*\*I remember playing a game on my Apple II+ that was just a little living room that got drawn slowly on the screen, then a man that danced around to musical tones. What the hell was that? \*\* Holy Cannoli! That was the coolest thing ever! It wasn’t part of a game though…I don’t remember exactly what it was. But I used to watch it over and over and laugh my heinie off. I liked UltimaII and Castle Wolfenstein. My brother was addicted to Wizardry. ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/12 "2000-11-03T14:47:51Z")
I remember, back in grade school, playing Conan on my friend’s Apple. (My family, unfortunately, had a PC Jr.) Anyway, from what I remember, the game was basically played on one screen. You started at the bottom of the screen (there was lava, or something similarly life-threatening, below you), and you had to work your way to the top of the screen to get a gem or something. I think your main weapon was a boomerang (it looked like a boomerang anyway). Somebody else mentioned it in Drain Bead’s Classic Game’s thread, a few days ago, too. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/13 "2000-11-03T15:02:07Z")
The classic I remember playing on the Apple IIc was Karateka. Awsome for its time. ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/14 "2000-11-03T16:13:47Z")
Is there anyone who went to elementary school in the 80s who didn’t play around with LOGO? ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/15 "2000-11-03T17:36:41Z")
Yeah, Starbury, that was Conan! All I could remember from that game was the final screen after you beat the game, but now I remember the actual game. I think there were eight levels… I played with LOGO, I think… Did that have a little triangle on the screen that you moved around to draw stuff on the screen? ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/16 "2000-11-03T19:47:03Z")
My computer instructor in 3rd grade always used to call that triangle thing in LOGO the “turtle”. From what I recall, the majority of the instructions in LOGO were to get the triangle to rotate the right amount of degrees. I never could draw anything worthwhile with it. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/17 "2000-11-03T19:53:27Z")
I used to play Conan in computer class back in jr. high. We would finish our assignments early so we could sit around and play Conan until the bell rang. IIRC, it was very similar to the DOS game Jill of the Jungle from the early 90s, but so much cooler. ---
**Author:** ![Ludo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Ludo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/18 "2000-11-03T20:30:23Z")
Maybe I couldn’t draw stuff w/ LOGO…wishful thinking, I guess. I found Conan! I got an emulator from [classicgaming.com](http://classicgaming.com) and the game. The only problem with it is that I remember it being green and black, and this one is in color… ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/19 "2000-11-03T20:33:17Z")
I think the Apple version was in green (wasn’t everything on the old Apple’s green?), and the IBM PC version was in color. ---
**Author:** ![Sledman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Sledman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sledman)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/20 "2000-11-03T20:40:36Z")
I don’t remember Denby or Conan but I do remember a game called Sneakers(I think) that was a blast. Our extremely small school had a couple of Apple IIe’s in the typing/business room. Fun game and I have never seen it anywhere else. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483.md?page=2)