Seeking old game name..
Doug McIntyre
Apple II way back when.
I seem to remember the name as Psychosphere, but anything close to
that name comes up totally different.
It was pure interactive fiction text, no graphics that I remember,
although I could be mistaken, any graphics would be very crude Apple II.
The plot started out with you knowing nothing about an alien space
ship. There were rooms with mist, and tendrils of something coming
down from the ceiling, and different colored access cards.
I remember myself not getting very far.
Any hits on this? Or is it something I made up in my memory?
S. John Ross
> Its been bugging me for the longest time about a game I had for my
> Apple II way back when.
Strange Odyssey, maybe?
Andrew Plotkin
> Its been bugging me for the longest time about a game I had for my
> Apple II way back when.
>
> I seem to remember the name as Psychosphere, but anything close to
> that name comes up totally different.
>
> It was pure interactive fiction text, no graphics that I remember,
> although I could be mistaken, any graphics would be very crude Apple II.
>
> The plot started out with you knowing nothing about an alien space
> ship. There were rooms with mist, and tendrils of something coming
> down from the ceiling, and different colored access cards.
I happen to have a copy of Schuette's _Book of Adventure Games II_
(for personal reasons: <http://eblong.com/zarf/inhumane-boag.html> !)
It lists _Psychosphere_ from some studio called "Software Unlimited".
It's a SF game, for the Apple 2, and the walkthrough mentions colored
spheres, aliens, and sitting in a chair to receive dream clues. It
seems unlikely to *not* be the game you're remembering.
This doesn't get you anywhere towards finding the game itself, I know.
--Z
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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the borogoves..."
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Doug McIntyre
Well, that certainly seems to be it.
Thanks for the confirmation that something like that existed at some
point in time in the past.