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"Robert Norton" <r...@execpc.com> wrote in message
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> Scott Butler wrote:
>
> > "Robert Norton" <r...@execpc.com> wrote in message
> > news:3897ab94$0$2959@news.execpc.com...
> > > Ashikaga wrote:
> > >
> > > The Mask of the Sun: (early Apple ][ adventure) the twinkling pool
room.
> >
> > UUuuuuuuggghhh!!!!
> >
> > Whenever I think of that evil game the only thing I can think of is
MAZE!!
> >
> > Allegedly, according to the Giant Book of Adventure Games (an early
eighties
> > walkthrough book for many a game), you are supposed to emerge from this
> > completely random maze --that is one room away from the endgame --
> > somewhere after the seventy-fifth move.  I have literally roamed this
maze
> > for
> > over two hours and have never left.
> >
> > My Apple II is now gathering dust and the game has (if there is any
justice
> > in this
> > world) been banished to some far corner of Hell.  Curse your eyes for
> > bringing
> > back the pain and the torment to me!!!! :)
>
> Maybe you had the FAKE MASK???  You will never find your way out unless
you get
> the real one, hidden underneath.
>
> It was an amazing game, technically.  Text and color graphics, they used
flicker
> frames to provide animation, and sound effects, like the flute were great.
All
> in 48K of RAM.
>

I dunno...Like I said, I ended up using a walkthrough book, and I tried
playing the game numerous times trying to figure out what I did wrong.  I
was a kid at the time though, so it's entirely possible that I  messed
something up even with the cheats.

I did enjoy the game up to that point, but to this day it remains one of the
few (no others immediately come to mind -- maybe its the only!!) games I
started but never won.  And that's a lot of games! :)

I know I have it somewhere at my parents' house and will probably eventually
go back and complete it, you know, for closure.

Scott Butler