I had a copy of this game around 1992 or so, but it may very well have
been older. I can't recall the name of it though, and would like to
play it again if I can. Here's what I remember of it:
It was text-based, and I seem to recall the text being set to brown or
yellow, but am not 100% sure about that. It fit on a 5.25" floppy. It
was a sort of role-playing or adventure game, but you mainly just
wondered around getting random encounters. You had no choice of what
direction you travelled, you would just hit return or space and
something or nothing would happen. Each time the screen would scroll
with a large quantity of stats info. I remember you had a pack of
followers that would often starve or otherwise die. You could
replenish these at least in inns. You would sometimes end up in these
inns or taverns where you could do a couple things. Like sometimes you
would meet someone and they would either be ugly or pretty and you
could then decide whether to have them join your cadre of followers.
It would tell you whether they were ugly or not with a short 4 line
poem. One poem i remember the last two lines of for ugly females was
something close to "she is ugly as sin, do you let her in?"
Occasionally when travelling about you would come across the boss
villian of the game, who was a wizard. You could then get into a big
fight with him and he would possibly run off and you could get loot.
This game was a pretty simple one and may have been an amateur effort.
I acquired it in a collection of floppies I got from a guy I got a
computer from around then and he probably got it off a BBS.
Any of this sound familiar? Sorry about not being sure about a few of
these things. It's possible my memory of various text games from that
era are mixed up, as it was quite some time ago, so any of these
things might not be correct.
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