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What are your favourite and most used late 70s or early 80s games/applications for the Apple II (not e or c)

Submitted by arukum17 on April 28, 2008 - 10:05pm. Apple II

I am thinking of putting together a collection of a few games and apps for home use:
I am only interested in games and non educational apps from the 70s and possibly very early 80s
Particularly interested in text based adventures.
Some popular ones I have on my list are:

ZORK I
SubLogic Flight Simulator II
Choplifter
Visicalc

Which ones are your favourites?
The sorts of apps you wouldn't mind firing up even today.

Arun

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Don't forget these:

Submitted by cwsmith on April 28, 2008 - 10:12pm.

LodeRunner
Transylvania
The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Seadragon

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Aztec was a game that came ou

Submitted by thrax on April 28, 2008 - 11:40pm.

Aztec was a game that came out in the early 80s and was very advanced for its time. It featured a realistic looking "indiana jones" like character instead of the common stick men most games had in that early 8-bit era. On top of that it had a very complex commands that required the use of the whole keyboard that allowed for interesting stuff to be done by the character.

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I hate to admit it, but the war arcade style ones were great. .

Submitted by mutant_pie on April 29, 2008 - 2:26am.

Stellar 7
Bolo

were engaging war games (tank battlers)

Conan and the Hall of Volta

was pretty fun

Early on there was this weird top-down view game of two battling, axe and shield wielding knights called The Bilestoad.

Good arcade to Apple ][ translations games include ;

Centipede
Ms. Pacman
Defender
Bezerk

Happy gaming!

Mutant_Pie

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Transylavania runs only on 64

Submitted by arukum17 on April 29, 2008 - 1:22pm.

Transylavania runs only on 64K, so I am told
Won't work with an original Apple II

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Still great

Submitted by resman on April 29, 2008 - 2:24pm.

Four games stand out to me as still fun and perfect for emulation:

Karateka, Choplifter, Sammy Lightfoot and Lode Runner.

I run these four on my Treo using Appalm ][ (slight plug for myself) and provide perfect on-the-move entertainment. Simple and challenging with good controls. Much better than the retro game packages you see today re-released for the newer platforms.

I don't think they require 64K, but I may be mistaken.

Dave...

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How can you forget Robot Odyssey

Submitted by coius on April 29, 2008 - 10:24pm.

Robot Odyssey
Fun logic/puzzle/adventure based game based on robots. If you can get a hold of the original discs and maybe an emulator

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I like hardball and karateka,

Submitted by adoreapple on May 24, 2008 - 10:46am.

I like hardball and karateka,karateka was released in 1985.I was studied in junior school.I spent four days to the end.it was famous game.I guess all apple games it must important and collecte.

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Sherwood Forest and Captain Goodnight!

Submitted by steveh on May 24, 2008 - 11:17am.

Captain goodnight and the islands of fear, and good ol Sherwood Forest. I loved them! Really neat graphics too. Both these games were major favorites. Im actually looking forward to firing them up again some day. I wonder if they are as good as I remember them....

Steve

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