aschultz's Miner 2049er review

So, how old is this? Apple II? Wow. I had no clue people actually played games on Apple II. HAHA. This sounds, frankly, like a perfect bore of a game, and I can only imagine how bad the graphics are :P

I think most people today, like myself, emulate Apple II. It's got some great older games on it, and some really tough ones too. I actually plan to write a review for the Apple II version of Archon II eventually, and it won't be pretty.

Yeah. It's emulated. I think I forgot to mention that the game appears on other systems as a port, and I'm sort of scared to play them.

It was enough of my youth, though, that I figured it was worth writing about. I can assume other people might have an NES or GameBoy game that kind of stunk in the same way, but they were still grateful to get through it. And I also suspect I get more of a bang than I should out of using save states to rip through an unfairly bad game. I just didn't realize how painful it was at the time. Thing is, it's never specifically boring. It's just way too demanding.

When I was little I used to play the C64 version at a friend's house of a morn before their parents walked us to the bus stop. I do remember only seeing a few levels, and going down those slides. I just never encountered the Apple II version in my whole youth of ignorant Apple game copying.

I actually have an Apple IIe in my front room, so if I play Apple IIe games it's more likely to be on the proper machine (though emulation is in some ways still more convenient). I've never played Miner 2049er, but I have a bunch of copied games on disc that include a number of other classics (and more dubious "classics" that warrant air quotes).