Please help me find these three ancient computer games.
October 3, 2005 5:30 AM Subscribe
Please help me find these three ancient computer games.
1. I think the first one was called “Mission: Escape”. It was played on Apple II and consisted (I think) of ten levels, each of which required your making it across the room to an exit to end the level. It was something of a real-time strategy game, in that you controlled a little man attempting to escape a complex filled with robots, something like the video game Berzerk. Both you and the robots are armed with missiles and lasers (you also had repeating-fire lasers). Turns were alternating; you only had a limited amount of time to take your turn.
2. The second game was a DOS-based game that was clearly based on the boardgame ‘Melee’ in which you fought progressively stronger monsters and received progressively nicer magic items.
3. The third game was called ‘Run for the Money’. It was a two-player game on a Macintosh platform. This game was secondarily a test of dexterity but primarily a test of business savvy in which you attempted to underprice and outsell your opponent so as to make enough money to get off the planet.
If you can help me recapture my childhood by helping me find and play any of these games on my Dell IBM I would be most appreciative.
1. I think the first one was called “Mission: Escape”. It was played on Apple II and consisted (I think) of ten levels, each of which required your making it across the room to an exit to end the level. It was something of a real-time strategy game, in that you controlled a little man attempting to escape a complex filled with robots, something like the video game Berzerk. Both you and the robots are armed with missiles and lasers (you also had repeating-fire lasers). Turns were alternating; you only had a limited amount of time to take your turn.
2. The second game was a DOS-based game that was clearly based on the boardgame ‘Melee’ in which you fought progressively stronger monsters and received progressively nicer magic items.
3. The third game was called ‘Run for the Money’. It was a two-player game on a Macintosh platform. This game was secondarily a test of dexterity but primarily a test of business savvy in which you attempted to underprice and outsell your opponent so as to make enough money to get off the planet.
If you can help me recapture my childhood by helping me find and play any of these games on my Dell IBM I would be most appreciative.
Best answer: I found a site that purports to have a download of Run for the Money, but the comments indicate you need to find a crack for it.
posted by iconomy at 6:02 AM on October 3, 2005
posted by iconomy at 6:02 AM on October 3, 2005
Response by poster: sveskemus, thanks for the try, but this is not actually the game I am looking for. I guess that there was more than one game by this name.
posted by Mr. Justice at 6:02 AM on October 3, 2005
posted by Mr. Justice at 6:02 AM on October 3, 2005
1. sounds a lot like Impossible Mission, but IM wasn't turn-based. And you didn't have lasers.
posted by neckro23 at 1:01 PM on October 3, 2005
posted by neckro23 at 1:01 PM on October 3, 2005
For the second game, I wonder if you're thinking of rogue? The mosters came in 26 flavors, named after animals A to Z (I was ice monster, K was kestrel, for example), and there were potions, wands, rings, and weapons, as well as gold, to be picked up.
posted by WestCoaster at 1:18 PM on October 3, 2005
posted by WestCoaster at 1:18 PM on October 3, 2005
If it might be rogue, it might be nethack, which quite a few people still believe is the greatest game ever made.
posted by wezelboy at 2:24 PM on October 3, 2005
posted by wezelboy at 2:24 PM on October 3, 2005
There was also "Temple of Apshai" and a few sequels that played sort of like a Rogue or Nethack with a pretty GUI (for the time). I had it for a Commodore 64, but the screenshot in that link sure looks like the barfalicious 4-color CGA of a period clone to me.
posted by mph at 1:04 PM on October 5, 2005
posted by mph at 1:04 PM on October 5, 2005
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posted by sveskemus at 5:44 AM on October 3, 2005