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Add the TRS-80 Ninja game as a Lost Game. Several other notes. Chris Pressey 8 years ago
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8888 being some kind of wizard, but I might be conflating it with other
8989 games I saw at that time.
9090
91 ### Ninja game
92
93 * available for: TRS-80
94
95 Side-scroller. You play a ninja, with a sai. You travel rightward
96 (you cannot stop.) Hazards include ninjas travelling leftward,
97 rocks on ground, rocks falling from sky(?). You can dispatch all(?)
98 of these hazards with your sai. I cannot remember if you can jump.
99 Istr mountains in the background. Or a sort of temple that you
100 eventually reach? I may be confabulating that.
101
91102 ### Would you two like you join me on a fantasia?
92103
93104 * seen-on: Arcade
173173 I can put my finger on exactly what it is, though.
174174
175175 I remember seeing this at a 7-11 near where my sister was living at the time.
176
177 Notable for the fact that there was a tie-in with the movie of the same name,
178 which featured a home console (Atari 5200) version of this game... which was
179 never finished, despite the fact that the movie was a commercial success.
176180
177181 Console
178182 -------
287291 Garfield.
288292
289293 BC's Quest for Tires.
294
295 Games I'd Like to Play
296 ----------------------
297
298 Because I've heard good things about them, possibly in articles
299 in magazines, but which I probably never will, because time.
300
301 ### Macbeth
302
303 * available for: Commodore 64
304 * genre: Text Adventure
305
306 ### Oo-Topos
307
308 * genre: Text Adventure
309
310 ### Amnesia
311
312 * genre: Text Adventure
313
314 ### Tass Times in Tone Town
315
316 * genre: Text Adventure
317
318 ### Mask of the Sun
319
320 * genre: Text Adventure
321
322 ### A Mind Forever Voyaging
323
324 * genre: Text Adventure
325
326 ### Galactic Gladiators
327
328 * available for: Apple II, IBM PC
329 * genre: Tactical Simulation
330
331 Written in BASIC, I believe. And I believe the manual detailed
332 all of the calculations, so you could, if you wanted to, play it
333 with pen and paper. (Not certain about that though.)