# What's this Apple \]\[GS game? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432 "2007-01-18T08:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FreqFreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@FreqFreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreqFreak)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/1 "2007-01-18T08:14:25Z")
I’ve been looking through Wikipedia and Google Image Search for the past hour - this urge visits me every few months: I have a distinct memory of a game I had for my ][GS, late in its life, that I’d like to at least learn the name of, if not find a disk image eventually. It was totally polygon-based, which blew my mind at the time. As near as I can remember, it was like what we’d call an FPS today, but I want to say it was more labyrinth-y, like Wizardry, or Wolf3D. I’m pretty sure I sent away for it through a catalog or magazine, so I don’t think it was a major title that I could have bought in a store. If anyone has a list of ][GS games and could post a few titles that sound like what I’m remembering, or a screenshot or two, I’d really appreciate it. I might recognize the name, but I’d definetely recognize a screenshot. Beyond that, all I recall is that I couldn’t get very far in it, and that I want to say (again - just a VERY vague memory - this happened 14-16 years ago) it had, at least at the beginning of the game, mostly blue walls and mostly black ground and sky. Shot in the dark, I know - ringing any bells out there? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/2 "2007-01-18T14:57:28Z")
Do any of [these](http://www.whatisthe2gs.apple2.org.za/the_fairway/) ring any bells? ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/3 "2007-01-18T19:58:19Z")
In case you didn’t see on wikipedia, they have a list: > **[List of Apple IIGS games](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_IIGS_games)** > > Following is a list of Apple IIGS games. While backwards compatible for running most Apple II games, the Apple IIGS has a native 16-bit mode with support for graphics, sound, and animation capabilities that surpass the abilities of the earlier Apple II. The machine is part of the 16-bit home computer gaming revolution of the mid 1980s to early 1990s, competing directly with the Amiga and Atari ST. > There are currently 227 games on this list.\[a\] > This category is of games that were never officia... I don’t know what it is. How about this one: in elementary school we played this games on the IIGS that had wire-frame drawings and a story, an investigation. You had to search for clues and solve math problems. The computer did the arithmetic I think, but you had to tell it what to compute and what conversion factors to use. Playing this taught us about dimensional analysis, which I then had to go over again in every basic science course I took in junior college. ---
**Author:** ![thirdname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/4 "2007-01-18T20:08:01Z")
[QUOTE=riker1384] How about this one: in elementary school we played this games [/QUOTE] Though apparently we didn’t learn the grammars. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/5 "2007-01-18T23:01:48Z")
Hmm… did it have the name of “Vector” something or other? And you were a small vehicle trying to fight your way through a maze? ---
**Author:** ![sishoch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@sishoch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sishoch)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2007, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/6 "2007-01-18T23:34:50Z")
Could it be [Tempest](http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=T&game_id=10065)? ---
**Author:** ![FreqFreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@FreqFreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreqFreak)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-apple-gs-game/388432/7 "2007-01-19T03:36:34Z")
No hits. Thanks for all the suggestions - I checked wiki and some of those apple sites - none seem to have a BIG list of games, just a few major titles. Not flying a ship - definetely was first-person dungeon-crawling type deal. Polygons were filled, flat shaded. And man, I WISH I had Tempest back when I was a kid.