Games

The first installment and an introduction with six short stories to the Interactive Fiction franchise.

The goal is distant, the test arduous. At times it may prove more practical to avoid a threat than to face it. So long as you use your wits and cleave to the Way, your karma will sustain you in this world. Should you fail in correct persistance, dark spirits will carry your spirit away to face the Mirror of Truth, and your failure will come back to mock you forever. Now heed my teachings, that you may gain enlightenment.

Phoenix clone

An asteroid is on collision course with Earth and it's up to the player to prevent the inevitable catastrophe. "Mission Asteroid" is the third text adventure with graphical illustrations by Sierra. But due to its easy difficulty level it was released as number zero in Sierra's Hi-Res Adventure series. The game's parser only understands simple one- or two-word commands.

A graphical text-adventure in which the player has to escape from the mid-African nation of Rungistan.

As Tal, your job is to single-handedly clear out the aliens who have invaded a desolate and destroyed post-nuclear earth. To have any chance of this, he must locate a sacred suit of armor. Not only will this protect him from radiation, and allow him to withstand some enemy contact, it also heals him, and enables him to float. This means that the game has two distinct styles, with your character limited to jumping, and with only rocks (located around the screens) to throw. Once he finds the suit he can fly around the ledges, shoot the inbuilt Pulsar beam, and survive within the volcanic hideout the aliens have based themselves. You will need to recharge the suit at times, and also take it off to pass through tight caverns.

You collect treasure in a sewer labyrinth.

Released in 1984 on Apple II, by Quest.

An island runs from north to south in the center of the screen. Both sides of the island have to be defended from the enemy.

You have to help the strong but not very intelligent Gorn to rid the kingdom of Balema of a dragon.

As an Irish miner named Timothy O'Riley you must dig mines in search after valuable resources such as oil, diamonds and gold while you at the same time have to avoid evil creatures that dwell underground.

Loosely based on a movie, Kung-Fu Master is a side scrolling action game for one or two players, who alternate turns.

You are Bongo the gorilla and you're being pursued by evil robots. Your job is to collect the coconuts and leave the maze while avoiding the robots or dropping trees in their path leading them to a fiery demise. Very much like Pac Man.

Rainy Day Games is 1 - 3 player series of 3 card games for children. The player competes in card games against their opponent Ted Bear. There are three difficulty levels: beginner, smart, and genius. The three included games are: Concentration, where the player must memorize the location of a number of animated card, Old Maid, where the players choose matching cards from each other with the goal not to be the last holding the Joker, and Go Fish, where the players attempt to pick pairs from their opponent's hand.

Gir Draxon, Supreme Overlord of the evil Arcturan Empire, is preparing to launch an attack on Earth. As Commander of Terran Forces assigned to protect the planet, your mission is to reach the Arcturan star system and destroy Draxon before he can assemble his forces and capture Earth.

Swashbuckler is an early fighting game for the Apple II family of computers, created by Paul Stephenson and published by Datamost in 1982. The player controls a sword-wielding swashbuckler who must fight and dispatch various attackers. Combat occurs in a wooden-beamed ship's hold littered with skeletons and cobwebs, which the player views from the side.

Mind Prober asks users questions to rate themselves or other people on a series of 23 adjectives (talkative, pleasure-seeking, etc.), computes the results, and prints a three-page report describing the person. The questions for users differ by gender (male or female) and age (under 18, or 18 and older). The program comes with a thick manual-plus-book that contains many chapters on how to better understand people around you.

A compilation of four games; released in 1985. Play Eliza, Conway's Life, Crowther's Adventure, or Al Alcorn's Pong.