Abe Sargent
08-10-2003, 01:27 PM
I have no idea what they were called. Knowing that would help me find them. I've looked on websites and have been unsucessful intracking down a single one of these three games. Here is what I remember:
Game #1 - Was played on the PC during the late 80's or early 90's. You raced around a track in a car, and based on your position you would get money. Then you could use that money to buy weapons, armor, mines, better suspension, engine, etc. You basically drove around these various tracks firing at other cars and trying to avoid their attacks while also trying to finish a race.
Game #2 - These last three are most likely Apple games, although I may be wrong. It was from the early to mid 80's. I played it in Gifted Class when I was in fourth grade, 1986. This game featured a haunted mansion of some sort where you walked through walls and had to take on challenges. It was a very deep game and I remember that it had text elements.
Game #3 - I was exposed to this game over the summer after my fourth or fifth grade year (1986-87) in Voyage of the Mimi II. IT was a game that everybody played but I was never able to finish. I was shipwrecked on an island and I had to choose the flora and fauna of the island. Having done that, I had to contruct a house, hunt animals, gather plants, fish, and so forth and survive. If I chose a poor ecosystem, the island could not support me for the winter. Different activites used different amounts of food. I do not know if the game was directly linked to VotM II or not, but it was a lot of fun and fairly educational. My review of VotM II mterial on the web does not reveal this game.
Game #4 - This game I vaguley recall but it had the most depth. Although i was exposed to it the same summer as VotM II at the same place, I don't think that it was connected with VotM II. It involved me moving about a robot, entering it and storing stuff there, mavigating a maze-like futurisitc area, using tools I find, figuring out how to cross into new areas, and so forth.
If you know of or have information on these games, I'd love to see what you can show me!!! I just know that the information for these four games has got to be out there somewhere.
-Anxiety
Game #1 - Was played on the PC during the late 80's or early 90's. You raced around a track in a car, and based on your position you would get money. Then you could use that money to buy weapons, armor, mines, better suspension, engine, etc. You basically drove around these various tracks firing at other cars and trying to avoid their attacks while also trying to finish a race.
Game #2 - These last three are most likely Apple games, although I may be wrong. It was from the early to mid 80's. I played it in Gifted Class when I was in fourth grade, 1986. This game featured a haunted mansion of some sort where you walked through walls and had to take on challenges. It was a very deep game and I remember that it had text elements.
Game #3 - I was exposed to this game over the summer after my fourth or fifth grade year (1986-87) in Voyage of the Mimi II. IT was a game that everybody played but I was never able to finish. I was shipwrecked on an island and I had to choose the flora and fauna of the island. Having done that, I had to contruct a house, hunt animals, gather plants, fish, and so forth and survive. If I chose a poor ecosystem, the island could not support me for the winter. Different activites used different amounts of food. I do not know if the game was directly linked to VotM II or not, but it was a lot of fun and fairly educational. My review of VotM II mterial on the web does not reveal this game.
Game #4 - This game I vaguley recall but it had the most depth. Although i was exposed to it the same summer as VotM II at the same place, I don't think that it was connected with VotM II. It involved me moving about a robot, entering it and storing stuff there, mavigating a maze-like futurisitc area, using tools I find, figuring out how to cross into new areas, and so forth.
If you know of or have information on these games, I'd love to see what you can show me!!! I just know that the information for these four games has got to be out there somewhere.
-Anxiety