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Games I Remember, but can't ID

I remember several old games, but I can't put my finger on them!

1. Premise: A game where you went around in a boat (this was the demo version) talking to various people, except you could disguise yourself as other people to talk to them and solve their own problems. A talking head warned you not to take the form of the person you were talking to.
Date: 2003

2. Premise: An old game that opened about 20 windows, each with a simple game. Checkers, and one where you had to guide the fox, grain, and goose across.
System: System 6

3. Premise: An old black-and-white dungeon crawler, possibly shareware. One of the things I remember is that your inventory could contain food (that was one of the major "sections" of your inventory, like weapons).
System: System 7, but meant for 6, really.

4. Premise: On the last days of the original Macintosh Garden forums before it was overrun completely by spam, there was a screenshot of an unreleased game. Looked late 1990s, but it had a discarded-looking robot. It looked cool.
Date: ???

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#2 is "Blob", check out sheepmyshaver123.freevar.com/games.htm, Games disk #8.
#3 might be Rogue, available on this site.

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#3 might also be Angband, like Rogue. I still have the source for Unix rogue from 1978, and a saved game from 1986. Loved it. It consumed more computer CPU in the whole of the US than anything else in a particular year I was playing it.

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Thanks for the fast reply! #2 is indeed Blob (it would also make since I remember two Checkers-like games, and the fact that the name was forgettable).

#3 could be Angband. MacRogue appears to be color (this one wasn't), and Rogue looks circa 1985 and crashes Basilisk (this mystery game was compatible with 7)

#1 and #4 remain mysteries.

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#1 does sound familiar, but not enough that I can remember any more about it, or what it may have been called.

Can you describe the "abandoned robot" in any more detail for #4 ? Best robot game ever is RoboSport.

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#1 sounds like one of the Journeyman Adventures; there was a demo containing the settings mentioned.

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Yeah #1 does sound like the Journeyman Project to me... at least, I remember this from the demo..

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# 4 sounds a bit like Ray Dunakin's never released 3D game Morphworld. He is the author of A Mess o' Trouble/Another Fine Mess/Twisted and some more.
Here's a link to the image I think you´re trying to remember: http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Morphworld.html#2

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That was it!

It was Morphworld that I saw. Will he ever release a beta?

OK, so #3 is still a mystery.

I personally think it's some sort of shareware title, you know, the shareware titles of the early days of the Mac that weren't crippled? He was in a MUG, and he had a load of freeware/shareware titles he organized and put on floppy disks. Most of the software is available on the CDs that MCP uploaded on Old Mac Archive.

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What about Dungeon of Doom / Dungeon Revealed?

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Morphworld as a beta: not likely I´m afraid, reading this link: http://www.raydunakin.com/Site/Games_Status.html
You can only guess what impact it could´ve done if it´d been finished at the time.