Subject: Re: What game is this?
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David Boozer writes ...
> 
> I'm looking for a game for the Apple II.  I don't recall much about it,
> but I know:
> 
> It was a graphical adventure game, similar to an Infocom game but with
> bitmapped graphics
> 
> In the beginning of the game you were wandering around in a desert,
> perhaps on anothe planet.  Eventually you found a phone booth.  There was
> some writing which said "if you're in a fix, try calling MIX" (you were
> supposed to interpert MIX as a phone number written in Roman numerals)
> 
> There was a puzzle which involved obtaining a certain quantitiy of fluid
> by pouring the fluid from one to another of a collection of different
> sized beakers.  I think the fluid was some sort of medicine or antidote.
> 
> It was published before 1988
> 
> The title *might* have included the words "omega" or "lab" (not sure about
> this one)
> 
> There was a similar game, made by the same company, on which you were
> straned on a desert island.
> 
> In this other game, there was a puzzle of farmer, cabbage, goat, wolf
> genre (farmer wants to get all three across a river in a boat that can
> only cary the farmer plus one other thing, goat will eat cabbage and wolf
> will eat goat if farmer is not present, etc), only a rickety bridge played
> the role of the river and geometric solids played the role of the cabbage,
> goat, and wolf
> 
> At the end of this other game, I *think* you escaped from the island in a
> baloon.
> 
> Ok, that's about all I remember.  I know it's not much to go on, and is a
> rather strange request, but I'd be very grateful if anyone could help ID
> this game, or at least has some suggestions of how I could go about
> finding it
> 


     Do not recognize either game. The first one sounds like it could involve
time travel. One large Picture-Text adventure I never got into is "Time
Zone". Maybe that's the game.

     There are a bunch of game players on comp.emulators.apple2 (so this is
being cross-posted).  Someone there may recognize one or both of the
adventures you're looking for. 


> (maybe there's a comprehensive list of Apple II adventure games
> somewhere)?
 ....

     Try The Giant List at http://www.dadgum.com/giantlist/list.html . It has
many titles plus author, date, and publisher info which may help.

     For lots of adventure titles listed in one place, see Asimov-Georgia's
folders:

ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/images/games/adventure/
ftp://mirror.apple.asimov.net/images/games/rpg/



Rubywand