I'm looking for a roguelike game I remember from my childhood, running on Apple's Macintosh Plus machine.
Details I remember:
- It was a top-down view game with a deep dungeon you would explore, and you were able to develop your characters with spells / abilities - in short, a roguelike.
- Its graphics used actual images, it was not ASCII-based GUI.
- I don't recall if it had any 'save' feature or if death was permanent, and I don't remember if the levels were randomized.
- The ultimate goal was to find some "orb" and bring it back to the surface.
- Upon victory (and it wasn't easy), there was a picture of happy townspeople cheering, or something similar.
- The only monsters that I remember were dragons and "ice balls", which looked really similar to the orb you were supposed to retrieve.
- Some levels had boulders you could push around, and one of the later levels had some weird floorplan with lots of these boulders.
I guess the game is from circa 1987, and it was possibly monochrome (or was just displayed as monochrome on the macintosh's display).
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it sounds like a nethack knock-off :)
replace the orb with Amulet of Yendor, it has boulders, Sokoban level, etc.
Oak : Did Nethack have a non-ASCII GUI back then? Because I remember the game had real sprite graphics, not ASCII.Mana : Doesn't really answer the question, though.From Axarydax -
Check out Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, it is a roguelike in which you need to get an orb back from the dungeon, and it does have a tileset (i.e. graphics) version which looks rather nice and is very mouse-friendly.
Even if it is not the game you remember - still it is worth checking, as it is a game where they've put maximum fun - minimum chore in their design philosophy.
Oak : According to their history page they're based on a game from 1995, so they weren't around in 1987...NPC : Oh well, then it's not that. Still, an excellent game - I spent several hours with it last night, again :)From NPC -
I've been searching around some more and a possible candidate is Beneath Apple Manor.
However, I couldn't find enough details about it to verify that it is indeed the game, and couldn't get the available version to work... I'll keep trying.
From Oak -
I think it's this one :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Revealed
http://www.gamefaqs.com/mac/938009-the-dungeon-revealed/faqs/46761
shul : yay :) my first answer :)r00fus : Wow brings back memories... Dual-wielded DeathBlades; miscalculating and zapping self with a wand of death :-)From shul
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