Popular games for platform Commodore PET
Dunjonquest: Temple of Apshai is a dungeon-crawl role-playing game set in a sprawling underground complex. Create an adventurer, equip them at the inn, and explore more than 200 rooms filled with monsters, traps, and treasure. It is considered one of the first graphical role-playing games for home computers. It was an enormous success for its era, selling 30,000 copies by 1982 and remaining a best-seller for at least four years.
Telengard is an earlier example of a "dungeon crawler" role-playing game--albeit with a top-down view- with either real time movement (DOS version) or turn-based movement and turn based combat. Telengard is also played in real time, which means that monsters can attack even when the player's character is not moving. The player controls a single adventurer, selecting randomly-rolled sets of attributes: Strength, Intelligence, Wisdom, Constitution, Dexterity, and Charisma. The vast Telengard dungeon consists of 50 levels down and 200 by 200 rooms each level. Experience is awarded not only for defeating enemies, but also for finding treasure. When the player character gains a level, their attributes increase, and they gain the ability to cast higher-leveled spells. Treasure chests appear randomly in the dungeon. There are also specific features such as altars, thrones, fountains, etc. that the adventurer can discover which may have various effects on the character, whether being either positive or negative. Some creatures will befriend the player, sometimes providing the player with an item and/or healing them, provided the player's Charisma is high enough.
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
You are Sudden Smith and are on a mission to rescue ten prisoners who are kept by the evil alien race of the Tollah in a mine in an asteroid orbiting the planet Rigel. Whatever you do - you only of have 60 minutes to rescue all ten prisoners.
Your goal in this text adventure is to find a pirate treasure using two word commands.
1st person space shooter
A simulation of the Battle of Midway in 1942.
The crowd couldn't make it over for the regular weekly game? Relax, your personal computer will play 5 card DRAW POKER and bring the crowd with it. COMPUTER DRAW POKER sets you up with four other players controlled by the computer. Lucky, Shifty, Ace, and Slim are their names and they play a smart game, each in their own personal way. Players betting strategy is based on their hand and the betting behavior of the other players.
The arcade game Space Panic was the first "platformer" game, and it inspired more popular games of the time such as Lode Runner and Donkey Kong. There were many different versions of Space Panic on the original 8-bit machines, including Apple Panic which won a number of game awards. This is an updated version for the Commodore PET.
In your quest for the Dragon's Eye amulet you venture through the Seven Provinces defeating numerous enemies in this early RPG.
A vertically scrolling shooter developed by Inofuto for a variety of systems.
Zap is an early single player snake variant published in the CURSOR cassette magazine for the Commodore PET. The player controls a "missile" with the numeric keypad within a rectangular playing field. The goal is to collect targets that appear on screen without crashing the missile into a wall or itself. Collecting a target grants 10 points and grows the body of the missile. The missile can be moved vertically, horizontally and diagonally. The player can freeze the missile by pressing "5" on the keypad, which pauses the game but also subtracts 10 points per second from the player's score. The game ends after six crashes.
Est is a guessing game published in the CURSOR cassette magazine for the Commodore PET. There are two game modes. In the first game mode, a bar of a random length is displayed on the screen. The goal of the game is to estimate the length of the bar (in centimeters) as closely as possible. Up to one decimal can be entered. If the guess is within a certain range of the correct length, it will count as a good guess and score a point. After each guess, the player can decide to go for another round or quit the game. Once the player quits, the game will show the percentage of correct guesses and overall score. In the second game mode, a rectangle of random size is displayed on the screen instead of a bar. The player then estimates its area (in square centimeters). The player can choose the game mode at the beginning of the game.
Cells & Serpents is a roleplaying game. The player explores a series of unending randomized dungeon rooms fighting monsters and looking for treasure. At any time the player can choose to move left, right, or forwards. These can take the player to stairs up, stairs down, a blank wall, corridors, rooms, or doors. The player can not move beyond level 1, but as they move lower they encounter harder enemies and acquire greater treasure. Blank walls damage the player, and corridors present more movement options. Doors allow movement into rooms, and the player can listen at the door for clues prior to entering. Treasure contains gold, but sometimes contains armor and scrolls which make the player more powerful. When encountering an enemy, the player can choose to zap it with their limited spells to weaken the monster before attacking. In combat the player receives a randomized amount of damage, and if hit points reach 0 it's game over. The player receives a final score based upon levels cleared and monsters defeated.
Two Days to the Race is a text adventure game that you can play on your vintage computers. A text adventure is a game where all the interaction takes places with textand you instruct your alter ego by typing command at a prompt. The rest is done by your fantasy!
Using only text commands, players engage in turn-based tank battles against AI opponents.
Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now back in Genoa, Italy: your steam ferry arrived three days ago with 25 wooden boxes containing Queen Nefertari Meritmut's grave goods, a real treasure! They left Genoa by train, heading towards Turin, yesterday evening. While they were in transit, you were invited to a sumptuous reception organised by a wealthy art lover, Eugenio Collovati, count of Raligotto, but it would be hard to say that you appreciated the evening. But the reception was yesterday: now, you must catch the train to Turin and check that the treasure arrived safely. I will be your eyes and ears. Good luck.
Up to 4 players compete for the best mining claims in the solar system. Politics and sabotage can be used to your advantage in order to set the course for your family for the next hundred years.
B-1 Nuclear Bomber is a Simulation game, developed by Microcomputer Games Inc. and published by Avalon Hill, which was released in 1983.
Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio is a video game in which each player becomes the ruler of a fledgling Italian city-state around the year 1400. The goal of the game is to become king or queen; to do so the player must manage their city-state so that it may grow.
Set during the Napoleonic campaigns in 1812.
As the name suggests, this game brings to the personal computer one of the earliest concepts to appear on arcade and dedicated console game screens: a tank duel. Players look down on a battlefield of two-dimensional obstacles and maneuver their tanks to shoot and destroy each other. Each tank has nine points of armor, allowing eight hits before the final shot destroys the tank and hands victory to the opposing player.