Old Apple II RPG/Adventure game? - SOLVED

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Couldn’t find a ‘What game is this?’ thread with search so giving this a go.

Hoping someone might know what this game is! I used to play this old Apple II game at my cousin’s house when we’d visit as a kid. Probably mid-1980s. The only things I remember about are:

  1. It was a top down RPG/adventure game.
  2. It was a series of rooms, in which a room was the entire screen with an exit on each side.
  3. You played as a party of characters but they could be split up to move entirely independently.
  4. When a party member lost a fight, it would show ‘Elf lies dying’ or something like that during their turn.
  5. It’s not a Gold Box game or Wizard’s Crown or anything like that.
  6. Graphics were really simple & monochrome. The room was all black space with walls around the edges. Your characters were little icon type things like in the games in 5) but simpler.

I haven’t been able to find it with Google or old game sites so hoping this jogs someone’s memory!

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My first thought was Temple of Apshai, but don’t think that had multiple characters.

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Yeah, definitely doesn’t seem to be anything that mainstream either. I thought it had ‘Ring’ in the title but I’m probably misremembering that as none of the games w/ Ring fit.

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Wow, tried to remember this damn game for years now, looking for it every once in a while. And minutes after posting this thread, I finally figure it out. Bizarre.

The Missing Ring by Datasoft. Wiki says, “In 1984 Softline readers named the game the eighth-worst Apple program of 1983.” Time well spent trying to remember this apparent dud!

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The Magic Candle?

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For some reason I never played The Magic Candle when I spent hours on Abandonware sites years ago.

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Oh man, Magic Candle! I loved that game, it ate up six months of my life back when I was a senior in high school, I had pages of notes. In fact, I ranked it #7 on my top 100 games list we made a while back. Though I haven’t played it since then, so that’s some serious nostalgia talking, I won’t deny.

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Lol, I actually came across that one earlier when I was trying to figure it out. I’d never heard of it.

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I looooooove questions like this. Ask more!

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You can always visit https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/

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I have one then, that I asked about on the… Amiga thread, I think?

  • Amiga platform
  • Sports games, bloodbowl like
  • Topdown view
  • Mostly fantasy themed with various species.
  • Quite extensive team management in my souvenir (well, at least there was stuff to do outside the games)

and that’s about it! I remember it being somewhat tongue in cheek… sort of European comics styled.
This is a very fuzzy description :-/

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Could it be Grave Yardage? That’s a side view though.

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I had never heard of that game!
It is definitly in that spirit, although it was much more action oriented (in that vein, it was more ‘Speedball’ than ‘Madden’).

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My other guess is Brutal Sports Football but that’s also a side view.

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Got another that has been bugging me for years. Amiga game. Three players, you vs two AI and you’re basically a ball. You start in a center room and all 3 of you go for a ball. Each of you has a goal in a separate room. So your goal is to get the ball into an opponent’s room and keep it out of your own room. Once in an opponents room there is a goal that the 2 attacking players try to score in. I don’t remember it being too complicated, but played for hours on end. I think each opponent’s arena had special conditions and looked different as well.

Any ideas?

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Projectyle maybe? But I remember another game with similar rules and a much more austere art… Name escapes me.

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That’s it, thanks! I am not kidding, that has been bugging me for years. Just watched a video of the game play, so many memories. Not sure what I liked about it so much now either.

Very surprised to see it was EA as well. I thought it was some small unknown game since I have never seen mention of it since.