# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Usurer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/2acd7d/32.png) [@Usurer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Usurer)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/21 "2000-11-03T20:40:44Z")
The little-guy-in-the-living-room program was called “The Little Computer People Project”, of which I had a pirated copy (ooh, statute of limitations is a GOOD thing). He’d do little tricks, like you could call him on the phone and he’d talk to you, or he’d sit down and play the piano. You had to feed him regularly, or he’d turn pale and die. ---
**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, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/22 "2000-11-03T20:48:28Z")
So I got the PC version…good! I was worried my memories were turning monochrome on me! ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/23 "2000-11-04T05:29:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Starbury \* > \*\*My computer instructor in 3rd grade always used to call that triangle thing in LOGO the “turtle”. \*\* Same here. In fact, in my school they had the computer attached to a real turtle-shaped robot… which may have had a pen for drawing, I forget. Anybody remember “Rocky’s Boots?” All I remember is that it was some kids’ logic game involving making Rube Goldberg-esque contraptions… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/24 "2000-11-04T23:04:08Z")
The games that were green and black, were that way because you had a monocrome monitor. I’m getting ready to trash a top of the line IIC 1 Meg ram and a real time clock. That’s right, clocks were an add in for the system back then. I played the Kings Quest series on that, and used GEOS for the graphical operating system. It’s what I learned a lot of copy protection methods on. Used Dr.DOS alot. The monitor is in the bedroom pluged into video out on a vcr. It makes a good T.V. The real time clock didn’t screw up on January 1st either. You could manipulate how the disk drive wrote to the floppy. That was the last machine I wrote assembly language programs for. CLC LDA #1 INA or 1\*2=2 ---
**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 4, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/25 "2000-11-04T23:16:10Z")
Try selling that IIc on Ebay. Or you could just send it to me. Belay that. I forget that 1) I have no Apple II software left, 2) transferring files between it and my IBMs is too big a pain in the ass. At least my CoCo uses a legible disk format! ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483/26 "2000-11-05T21:47:36Z")
You can’t forget the OG of Apple IIe games - **Oregon Trail**. Man, everyone in my elementary school was practically addicted to that game. That, and good ol LOGO in the famous “Computer Bus” that came by every once in a while. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vintage-apple-games/39483.md?page=1)