![]() ![]() And when it came to these games, during the late 80's - and for a blink in the early 90s when Apple still had games manufactured for it - the Apple II was the system. ![]() But a "boring map game," as my wife likes to call PC RPGs, those are heavenly on the computer. I wasn't much, and still am not much, for fight games and sports games on the PC, those games belong on consoles. ![]() In fact, after finishing the Bard's Tale trilogy, I wandered through the many levels of "Wizardry." For five years, and to be honest to the present day, computer gaming was synonymous with computer roleplaying for me. If memory serves, Sean owned the PC version, but the computer I learned BASIC on at school (and used all those maps made during the all nighters on at lunch while playing Bard's Tale) was an Apple II. In fact, my modern love of "actioners" like Assassin's Creed can be directly mapped back to Pitfall and my love of "action rpgs" can be mapped back to the excellent Raiders of the Lost Ark licensed game (not everyone agrees with me that RotLA was excellent, but I'm sticking to my guns).īut many of my favorite gaming moments can be traced back to "all nighters" spent mapping the levels of Bard's Tale as my friend Sean fought against hordes of "99 Barbarians, 99 Barbarians, 99 Barbarians, and 99 Barbarians." Ah, those were the days. Many times I played Asteroids on "flip" mode until I rolled over the score, not to mention the many hours devoted to Yar's Revenge. I owned an Atari 2600 and played its games obsessively. ![]() When it comes to my early memories of video games, there are two systems that dominated my early gaming - and thus my long term gaming habits. Today's Gamasutra has a great article about the Apple II and its role in the history of video game development.Īctually, it's a great article about the early history of Apple with some minor notes about Apple's impact as a game console, even though the article is supposed to be devoted to the Apple II as a gaming platform. ![]()
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