Old game, half-remembered, maze of rooms and corridors.
March 14, 2007 4:01 PM 
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Need help with an old computer game, possibly Apple II.
My wife is trying to remember an old computer game, from 1982-85, she believes. It could have been on an old Apple II. She remembers the monitor being green and black, maybe yellow and black, not full color.
In the game itself, the view was top-down. You moved a blinking square cursor around inside a maze-like series of rooms and passages. When you entered a room, you could see the whole room. The rooms were squarish or rectangular. The walls were represented by simple lines. Sometimes you would find objects, such as keys, and sometimes the rooms may have had inhabitants, possibly ghosts or bats or other monsters, but it seems to have more of a puzzle/adventure game rather than action. There were different levels, ie, you were able to go up and down stairs. She can't remember if there were text descriptions of the rooms or not. She describes the levels as quite extensive, in that each had at least forty rooms, possibly many more. It wasn't an RPG, because the game didn't have all the stats and numbers and everything.
I know this information could apply to a lot of games, but we're hoping at least to narrow our search. Also, I don't think the game was probably a very obscure one: the only other game her dad had for this computer was "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?".
Links to screenshots, emulators/roms, descriptions, or other rescources will all be very helpful. Thanks!
posted by sleevener to computers & internet (25 comments total)
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posted by scblackman at 4:05 PM on March 14, 2007