On Jan 25, 9:07 pm, "Bruce C. Miller" <bm3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
maybe you could check out other text adventures at www.ifarchive.org
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