Action games for Apple II?

[satori]

My favorite Apple II action games of all time:
Star Blazer - One of the best side scroller action games for the apple 2

awww, yeah.... I forgot about Starblazer... It was sort of a funny looking flash gordon type ship, with some wacky animation effect on the nose cone... man that game was fun, I think I played that one and choplifter in the same time period for hours on end.

[The Romero]

Star Blazer by Tony Suzuki - one of the high water marks of Apple II animation and game design.  Definitely a masterpiece.  I beat the entire game and it was tough but super fun.  I tried pretty hard to track down Tony years ago but to no avail.  Last i heard he was a chemical engineer in Japan...

[youspeakmylanguage]

This may be off-topic, but since we're talking about these classic underground games...

Lucky me, I had a PCjr instead of an Apple ][ because my uncle worked in R&D at IBM. I had a bunch of homebrew games that the IBM folks traded around which were all almost universally crap, except for one. It was a really, really cool 2d side-scrolling game with a layout similar to Defender, except you flew a biplane. You had to dogfight other planes and even had to refuel with an airborne tanker. It was the only PCjr homebrew game I can remember that had a boss - a giant blimp. I also remember messages would scroll across the screen - ones that indicated the designer and/or programmer was Republican because it would say things like, "Win one for the Gipper!". I think, though I'm not sure, that it had a  Mad Max storyline.

Anyway, I'm sure no one here played homebrew PCjr games, but I'm hoping this was also released for the Apple ][. Does anyone recognize it or, better yet, know where I can find a copy?

[satori]

nope, not an apple game as far as I can tell

[Rizimar]

Oregon Trail.

[Stage-It]

Man, I've wanted an Apple II for years now but my parents would literally kill me if I looted one from the trash or bought one off eBay or something.

Because as of now...I have four computers, including a Dell Dimension with OS X on it!

*Sigh* Guess I'll have to wait to play the classics...

[Zn]

You can use an emulator, like Applewin and get some games to play with it.

[satori]

yes, there are quite a few sites out there with emulators you can run through your browser and they even have games that you can run as well... I recall seeing one with choplifter, starblazer, wavynavy, aztec, wizardry, ultimaI, and Ultima II... anyway do some google searches, you'll find them.

[The Romero]

http://www.virtualapple.com

[funduke]

http://www.virtualapple.com

That page has changed it's location.
It's now here:
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Greetings
Funduke

[Crumm]

sorry for digging this one out of the dirt, but how can you forget about LodeRunner, the only game I'm aware of, where you can dig your own grave
Played it at School and always were late at the next lesson. Loosing control of your plan and digging your way out of trouble was the most immerse thing I've done for a long time in a game.

[The Romero]

Yeah, Lode Runner kicked ass.  It was called Miner while Doug Smith was developing it.  He took a couple years writing that game and eventually got Broderbund to publish it.  He took the little man running shapes from Choplifter.

[Crumm]

Oh yes, i knew i had seen these animations before ^^
I also remember playing "Swashbuckler", which had a really freaking fencing part Don't know exactly if you could also navigate a frigate and give a real good broadside at other (players or Computer AI) in this game.

[HiriseSoftware]

Oh come on, nobody is mentioning "Wings of Fury"?  Strafing those little men on the islands was the best part!  And I think that game also used the running man shapes from Choplifter... there's a Game Boy Color version of Wings of Fury as well, and I think it's been remade for PC.