Rick wrote:
> Could the game you're thinking of be 'Wilderness'?
>
> I bought it for my Apple ][ computer sometime in the late '70s.
> Both my wife and I loved it.
>
> I may even still have it in storage with my Apple ][ computer.
Update: I did a search and found the one I was thinking of.
Name: Wilderness Campaign
Programmer(s): Robert Clardy
Publisher: Synergistic
Year: 1979
There are a couple of images at:
http://www.apple2games.com/wiki/Wilderness_Campaign
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> Bruce C. Miller 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.
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Rick
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