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Ardy the Aardvark

Ardy the Aardvark is a cute little single disk graphics game.  The object is to control the tongue of Ardy the Aardvark down through the tunnels of an anthill. Gobbling up the goodies, while avoiding the guard ants you move

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Arcade Games, Diskette 3

Arcade Games, Diskette 3, contains three games which according to the splash screen require a joystick. The games are Ball Blaster, Big-Mac Attack and King Tut’s Revenge. I tried out Ball Blaster and found it was a pin ball machine

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Arcade Games, Diskette 2

Arcade Games, Diskette 2 contains ten files, most of which we won’t be concerned with.  The first is the Hello program which lists the files and acts as a menu program to run some of them. The theme of the

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Arcade Games, Diskette 1

There are three diskette images in the Arcade Games Package.  The first diskette Arcade1 has four games Robotron, Pacman, Star Trek+, and Mario Bros. I’ve been watching Battlestar Galactica on Netflix and can’t help but draw similarities  between them.  In

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Apple Panic

Apple Panic is an arcade style game similar to Donkey Kong.  It comes on a single diskette image. You move around a building climbing up and down ladders avoiding giant apples, which you destroy by pounding them into a hole. 

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Apple Cider Spider

Apple Cider Spider, by Sierra On-Line, is a single diskette arcade style game.  Visually it reminds me of Hard Hat Mack or Donkey Kong. The object seems to be to move your spider through an Apple Cider manufacturing plant while

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Amnesia

Amnesia turns out to be a text adventure published by Electronic Arts.  One of the splash screens said it was written in something called King Edward Adventure Language.  I had never heard of it, so I googled it.  This is

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Alpine Encounter

Opening the Zip file for Alpine Encounter reveals two disk images.  After booting the first image and swapping to the second image, I found it was a graphic text adventure. This one seems different from the ones I have looked

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Adventure Creation Systems

Apple2Online has three different Adventure Creation Systems in just the A’s; Adventure Construction Set, Adventure Master and Adventure Writer.  Just judging by size they have very different levels of complexity.  I honestly did not do much more than boot them

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Adventure to Atlantis

Adventure to Atlantis is a single disk graphic adventure.  Your goal is to journey to Atlantis from your kingdom and defeat them to save your kingdom. I find the graphic adventures are not as enjoyable for me. This one has

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