[Macworld]

Post your comments for Classic Apple II games that inspired today's greats here

[HobbesDoo]

"You can run over 1000 Apple IIe/IIc/IIgs applications through Active X controls in Internet Explorer." ????
Am I missing something here? Now I have to get Windows, use the crappy IE 6 to play Apple games? Weird.
Sure there are emulators out there for Apple II and co, but this is an article on a Mac magazine about playing Mac games on Windows. Very strange.

[Kyle_Varnell]

I seem to remember when I got my old Apple II there was a "Typing Game" of sorts that had a rabbit as it's "Star". From what I can remember it was a game where you had to maneuver the rabbit through a maze to get a carrot.
I think it was to get you familiar with the keyboard set-up.
Does anybody even remember this one?

[flybynight]

@HobbesDoo - This is an article, reprinted from PC World about playing Apple II games, not Mac games.
But still, you'd think that whoever came up with this would have a way to do it on a Mac-native browser...

[phoopee3]

i somehow obtained a copy of a game that was a hack of "beyond castle wolfenstein" it was called "beyond castle smurfenstein" and was the same game, except everyone was smurfs. it was awesome, now i need to find it!

[Raymondo17]

My favorite primitive Apple game was an early Mac adventure game called "Shadowgate." Sure the graphics were black and white and a bit on the raw side, but incredibly compelling. I wish I could find and play that today.
The thing that amazes me is that all these years later, video game technology and graphic quality has become mindblowingly great, yet most of the games themselves are just weak rehashes of stuff we were playing in arcades in 1980. :/

[ndelc]

I have to have Windows to use the Apple II emulator? Oh, the painful irony!

[Swordman]

If anyone needs me, I'll be there. Don't need me though. . .
Ok, Karateka, "I'm Back!"

[heimdall]

My favorite: Drol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drol

[ndelc]

phoopee, I remember Smurfenstein. The copy I had was really buggy though, and we couldn't ever get very far.
heimdall, I remember Drol too. That was a really fun one as well.
I have to say, one of my favorites (besides Wolfenstein and the Wizardry series, especially Knight of Diamonds) was a text based adventure game called The Count. That was really a great game! Hard to believe considering it had NO graphics at all.

[Scalpel]

The program with various games/activities for teaching how to use a computer was on a disk bundled with the hardware. It was called "Apple Presesnts ][+/][e".

[leicaman]

I remember a game where you traversed the galaxy buying and trading with planets and other space farers. I always wanted to see that one again.

But if I have to run Windows, then forget that. I'll stick to ETQW as Hrunga Zmuda. :)

[Headrush69]

Obviously no one bothered to even try it.
Works in any Java enabled browser.
Playing Loderunner on Safari 4 now.

[Headrush69]

For the IIGS emu you Windows.