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Lode Runner, Conan: Hall of Volta, Oregon Trail, etc. ;) Btw, you can replay them online here: http://virtualapple.org/ ...

I played Choplifter (Lode Runners to rescue, hehe), Karateka (bah to that remake), Aztec (so many keys and easy to cheat!), Gemstone Warrior, Nibbler, Bilestoad, Diamond Mines, Conan the Barbian, Bruce Lee, RoboCop (ew), Gauntlet (ew), Montezuma's Revenge, Oregon Trail (duh!), Lemonade, etc.

10 HOME
20 PRINT "HELLO!"
30 GOTO 10
RUN ;) You forgot Logo!!

BTW, you can (re)play these old Apple 2 games on http://virtualapple.org/ ...

For me and I just went over the hill. It can be played online too! ;)

Though only finished and released around 1997: http://www.gardenwithinsight.c...

(Unrelated work and also two years of grad school to learn more about ecological modelling plus excessive ambition caused delays in getting it done...)

And MECC's "Lunar Greenhouse" from 1989 ran on the Apple II:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/...

This emulator did not work for me, but seemingly Lunar Greenhouse is online:
http://www.virtualapple.org/me...
http://www.virtualapple.org/J_...

But there are other text-based games like Hamurabi which goes all the way back to 1968 where you "plant" crops and harvest them. I played a variation of tha first around 1980 or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

It can be played online:
http://www.hammurabigame.com/h...

I've long wanted to build a general purpose gardening (and maintenance) robot like the ones in "Silent Running". For some reason, there has been economic resistance to supporting general purpose agricultural robots. Cheap illegal labor in that sense harmed my career in robotics in the 1980s when I really, really wanted to make such things. :-(

That's one reason I've just done software, which is cheaper to do on your own than robotics. Or it was, now that robotics is getting so much cheaper for various reasons due to cheap powerful embedded computers and cheaper sensors and actuators and 3D printing and web-based design and manufacturing like via 100K garages and such.
http://www.100kgarages.com/

There were a couple times I spoke with academic roboticists about making general purpose agricultural robotics in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both were interested in industry-fundable specific purpose robots, like for seeding transfer in greenhouses (Rutgers) or for autonomous wheat harvesting with big machines (CMU). Those were no doubt fairly practical ideas, and I may have been well served in a robotics career to have pursued such practical ideas in cooperation with those professors, but they were not the general purpose system I really wanted to work on like the Silent Running-type drones. Still, they might have been stepping stones to better systems -- but it is easy to be too ambitious and impatient when you are young.

Nowadays though, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in agricultural robotics, and I wonder if crackdowns on illegal agricultural labor may even be connected to it?
"Crackdown on illegal immigrants left crops rotting in Georgia fields, ag chief tells US lawmakers
http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/1...

Also, this is a problematical statement from the point of view of a robotics engineer: "A robust agricultural guest worker program, properly designed, will not displace American workers," Black said in remarks prepared for the hearing. "As my testimony shows, in Georgia, even with current high unemployment rates, it is difficult for farmers to fill their labor needs."

That guest worker program displaces robotics engineers... Otherwise there would be a much greater demand for general purpose agricultural robots.

Instead, I worked on virtual gardening software for growing virtual plants. My wife and I also made a simpler version of the garden simulator just for breeding virtual plants (mostly her work):
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/...

That said, there is little that is better for mental health for many people than

Though only finished and released around 1997: http://www.gardenwithinsight.c...

(Unrelated work and also two years of grad school to learn more about ecological modelling plus excessive ambition caused delays in getting it done...)

And MECC's "Lunar Greenhouse" from 1989 ran on the Apple II:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/...

This emulator did not work for me, but seemingly Lunar Greenhouse is online:
http://www.virtualapple.org/me...
http://www.virtualapple.org/J_...

But there are other text-based games like Hamurabi which goes all the way back to 1968 where you "plant" crops and harvest them. I played a variation of tha first around 1980 or so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

It can be played online:
http://www.hammurabigame.com/h...

I've long wanted to build a general purpose gardening (and maintenance) robot like the ones in "Silent Running". For some reason, there has been economic resistance to supporting general purpose agricultural robots. Cheap illegal labor in that sense harmed my career in robotics in the 1980s when I really, really wanted to make such things. :-(

That's one reason I've just done software, which is cheaper to do on your own than robotics. Or it was, now that robotics is getting so much cheaper for various reasons due to cheap powerful embedded computers and cheaper sensors and actuators and 3D printing and web-based design and manufacturing like via 100K garages and such.
http://www.100kgarages.com/

There were a couple times I spoke with academic roboticists about making general purpose agricultural robotics in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Both were interested in industry-fundable specific purpose robots, like for seeding transfer in greenhouses (Rutgers) or for autonomous wheat harvesting with big machines (CMU). Those were no doubt fairly practical ideas, and I may have been well served in a robotics career to have pursued such practical ideas in cooperation with those professors, but they were not the general purpose system I really wanted to work on like the Silent Running-type drones. Still, they might have been stepping stones to better systems -- but it is easy to be too ambitious and impatient when you are young.

Nowadays though, there seems to be a resurgence of interest in agricultural robotics, and I wonder if crackdowns on illegal agricultural labor may even be connected to it?
"Crackdown on illegal immigrants left crops rotting in Georgia fields, ag chief tells US lawmakers
http://blog.al.com/wire/2011/1...

Also, this is a problematical statement from the point of view of a robotics engineer: "A robust agricultural guest worker program, properly designed, will not displace American workers," Black said in remarks prepared for the hearing. "As my testimony shows, in Georgia, even with current high unemployment rates, it is difficult for farmers to fill their labor needs."

That guest worker program displaces robotics engineers... Otherwise there would be a much greater demand for general purpose agricultural robots.

Instead, I worked on virtual gardening software for growing virtual plants. My wife and I also made a simpler version of the garden simulator just for breeding virtual plants (mostly her work):
https://github.com/pdfernhout/...
http://www.kurtz-fernhout.com/...

That said, there is little that is better for mental health for many people than

Ask and ye shall receive?
http://www.virtualapple.org/

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

You're welcome. :)

Play that online: http://www.virtualapple.org/castlewolfensteindisk.html ;)

You can play it in colors AND online: http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html ... ;)

Oh yes...yesss there is, precious...

http://www.virtualapple.org/epochdisk.html

This should bring back some memories...

www.virtualapple.org/

Yeah: Classic :).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpoTwHAVd7w

http://www.virtualapple.org/dinoeggsdisk.html

Play some more here. ;)

Is this a joke? The game wasn't that hard.

If you approach the girl in a fighting stance, she kicks you in the face for attempting to fight her and you die.

If you stand up and run at her, you end up in a happy embrace -- THE END.

http://www.virtualapple.org/karatekadisk.html

I thought Oregon Trail had been re-released and updated multiple times over the years, already? I know it's not exactly a big seller anymore, so I suspect it quietly receives a new "version X" upgrade and only briefly hits store shelves before dying out.... but only 2-3 years ago, I'm pretty sure I saw a new version of it at the local Office Depot or OfficeMax?

You can still play the original for free online, here: http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Oh, and GameLoft just released a new version that plays on the iPhone too.

Virtual Apple has all kinds of Apple ][ games. http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html (requires Java)

The same people who dig http://www.virtualapple.org/ or think FreeDos is still relevant. People who are know vinyl has something CDs can't replicate. People who know the pinnacle of gaming was either Nethack or Ultima 7 (Depending on whether you prefer gameplay or story).

I only know of one remaining original disk - and I run that on my Apple II+ every now and again. I don't even have all of the original source code to make a new disk.
There are some good emulators: Virtual II seems very nice. Disks can be found with Google, or here http://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/games/file_based/

I just found http://www.virtualapple.org/reptondisk.html and it seems an amazing presentation.
I have not found an original version, all of these versions seem to be cracked versions, which given the copy protection is not surprising. Naturally my name and that of my coauthor appear nowhere in the cracked versions.
BTW - The iPhone version is better :-)

Of course you could always just play it in your browser.
    (though I can't test it, possibly your PS3's browser to)

You can play it right now with this Apple II Java emulator... http://www.virtualapple.org/pinballconstructionsetdisk.html

Is it possible to use VirtualApple? I assume no since Wii doesn't use IE and Firefox due to addons. :(

Because a computer is pretty limited for them until s/he is able to read. Reading to your child from a book is a great way to not only socialize and bond with them, as well as getting their imagination active.

He might still want on your computer, which is fine, but find something simple for him to do (you might consider having a look at http://virtualapple.org/ for some old, but good games.) and put him in your lap while he does it so you can help guide him, and keep your equipment from getting destroyed. No 2 year old should be on a computer alone.

For all you Apple // fans.

http://www.virtualapple.org/

Pretty solid collection too, plus you can play online or download for your own archiving.

why not just play them in your web browser?

Go here and play it in your Web browser. ;)

Is there a ROM for this? I'd like to see this myself. Virtual Apple 2 doesn't have it online. :(

Play Oregon Trail on Virtual Apple 2's emulator. There are other games as well.

Play Oregon Trail on Virtual Apple 2's emulator. There are other games as well.

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
Enjoy :)

http://www.virtualapple.org/

That's really all you need to know.

I'd add this bizarrely named game to your bloody game list: The Bilestoad

probably People Pong

Yep... I'm a fountain of (useless) knowledge about 80's games :)

Ah, if you want to nuke stuff you've got to go real old-school with the ASCII games (pre-WarGames stuff), we didn't have any of this fancy-schmancy "graphics" in those days (unless you count a 40x48 set of blocks):

Nukewar - Avalon Hill Games, 1980
or
B1 Bomber - Avalon Hill Games, 1980

(WARNING! - Both links require an ActiveX control to be installed, may not work in anything but IE...)

I can fondly remember playing these two for hours on my Apple ][+ (Rev. 7 w/64K! of RAM - that's with the 5-pound 16K expansion board of course...) -- nothing like turning the enemies territory into an eight-by-eight grid of asterisks!

Ah, if you want to nuke stuff you've got to go real old-school with the ASCII games (pre-WarGames stuff), we didn't have any of this fancy-schmancy "graphics" in those days (unless you count a 40x48 set of blocks):

Nukewar - Avalon Hill Games, 1980
or
B1 Bomber - Avalon Hill Games, 1980

(WARNING! - Both links require an ActiveX control to be installed, may not work in anything but IE...)

I can fondly remember playing these two for hours on my Apple ][+ (Rev. 7 w/64K! of RAM - that's with the 5-pound 16K expansion board of course...) -- nothing like turning the enemies territory into an eight-by-eight grid of asterisks!

Play it online if you have IE6.0. ;) It works. I never seen or played this game.

Check this out in IE.

http://www.virtualapple.org/neuromancergsdisk.html

Runs the game in an activeX Apple II emulator. Otherwise, you can just download the ROM.