Introducing Pegasus II, a captivating variation of the classic Scramble game. Prepare for an exhilarating side-scrolling shoot 'em up experience as you navigate your ship across a majestic mountainous terrain. Engage in intense combat by strategically dropping bombs to obliterate enemy installations on the ground, while skillfully shooting down rockets with your ship's laser beams. Be prepared for aerial adversaries like birds, saucers, and dragons that emerge as you progress through the game. Remember, any contact with enemies or the ground results in a lost life, and you begin with five lives.
Garfield Trivia Game is a 1 - 2 player Garfield comic related trivia game for the Apple II.
Players can choose to play against the timer or another human opponent in their knowledge of the Garfield comic. There player can choose from 4 of 6 categories of questions for each game, and the player can choose to make their own data disk with custom questions. The player is given a random question from 1 of the 4 categories, and they have a short time frame to answer correctly, earning up to 150 points if answered immediately, but less if answering takes longer. The player loses 50 points for an incorrect answer. The winner is ultimately the player whom accumulates the most points.
Wraith is a fantasy role-playing game like the author's previous effort Shadowforge, although it's set in a larger, more detailed world with an updated and expanded rule system. The worship of Metiria is being subverted all over the realm of Araithia; lords and commoners have turned their devotion to a newly-arrived evil power, the Wraith, whose monstrous armies now infest the island. You, guardian of the last Temple of the True Faith, are summoned to seek out and eliminate this evil.
Apple Bowl is a 1-player bowling game for the Apple II.
Played from a 1st person perspective at a bowling alley, the player bowls in lane, while occasionally another member at the bowling alley will bowl in lanes. A throw indicator scrolls slowly along the bottom of the screen, and the player starts their bowl when the ball is in their preferred position. The player controls the power and spin of the ball using the game paddles, and the game attempts to accurately simulate the physics of bowling. Follows standard 10-pin bowling rules with a total of 10 frames of bowling.
Flapple Bird is a 1-player arcade game for the Apple II.
Designed as an Apple II variant of Flappy Bird, the player controls a small bird that flaps its wings when the player taps a button, rises, and then shortly thereafter loses altitude. The player must guide their bird through a series of breaks in tubes, gaining one point for every tube successfully navigated. It's game over if the player hits a barricade, with goal to maximize score.
Dig Dug is a 1-2 player arcade game in which you have to use your shovel to dig your way through the earth. Stopping you from doing this are two monsters, called Pooka and Fygar, who will continually chase you around. The only weapon that you carry is an air pump, which you can use to inflate the monsters to the point where they explode. (if you start to inflate them but stop doing so, the monsters will get turned back to their normal selves). Furthermore, rocks are scattered throughout the earth, and you can use these rocks to squash them. If the monsters do not find you for several seconds, they will eventually get turned into ghosts, which can walk through the earth. They are invincible and cannot be killed. From time to time, vegetables will appear in the center, and you can get these for points.
Your task in this arcade game is to guide a frog across a treacherous road and river, and to safety at the top of the screen. Both these sections are fraught with a variety of hazards, each of which will kill the frog and cost you a life if contact is made.
Megabots is a futuristic strategy game that utilizes 3D graphics, animation, music and sound effects.
The game begins with an introduction to set the scene before the player enters a grid filled with robots that might be good or bad. The objective to find a power cell within the grid to move on to the next level. Good robots can be interrogated for information. Bad robots must be destroyed with the right weapon before you can move past them. The strategy element comes from choosing the right weapons for the bad robots, and navigating the grid based on the information received to find the power cell before the player's own power reserve is depleted.
Rebranded version of Taxman, a bootleg Pac-Man port released in 1981. Atari forced Taxman developer H.A.L. Labs to stop production of the game, and Atarisoft released it as a licensed Pac-Man port in 1983.
Blinky and Inky's names are swapped in this version.
After MECC began collecting the Apple II versions of its various timeshare programs, including Oregon and many others, they instituted a new method for distributing the Apple II versions of its software to Minnesota schools – by assembling collections of the programs on floppy disks.
One of the first releases in 1980 was Elementary Volume 6, containing five social studies simulation games, one of which was OREGON. Elementary Volume 6 soon became MECC’s most popular product for the Apple II.
The 1980 version of Oregon was a much simpler game than the 1985 version, lacking many of the features that people now associate with the game. The 1980 version is very similar to the original text-only version that people played on teletype machines in the 1970s. The main feature that distinguishes the 1980 version from its text-only predecessors is that the shooting activities include simple graphics. There is also a crude map available to indicate your progress