Play Alter Ego online!, An old game from the 80s Options

[Wounded Ronin]

This is incredibly cool! I found an online version of an old game from the 80s, "Alter Ego". It was written by an 80s dude who had an 80s degree in psychology. The game involves playing the role of yourself or an alter ego through a number of choose-your-own-adventure style vignettes. However, the game is also a bit more complicated because besides for the vignettes you can have romantic relationships, get jobs, go to college, and even make major purchases. The best part is when you go to buy a computer and the expensive awesome computers have got less than a megabyte of memory!

http://www.theblackforge.net/alterego/alterego

Go and play it! I had great fun.

There's both a male and female set of vignettes, but according to articles on the internet historically the female version barely sold at all because at that time women who played computer games were ultra rare. I mean, they're even still on the rare side today. Which is sad.

[Angelone]

I'm hooked been playing all day.

[Backgammon]

I was kidnapped, tortured and killed. Harsh.

[Backgammon]

Well, that cost me several hours of my today. Fun game.

[Critias]

I died of a heart attack while being the starting pitcher for The Senior Sluggers, my age 65+ softball team.

[Velocity219e]

Two happy lives and one death by car accident while trying to teach a speeding driver a lesson, the tree I hit had a different lesson in mind, although I'm not sure if it was BUY GLASSES or SLOW DOWN!

^^

[Wounded Ronin]

I played through the game trying to play the role of Robert E. Howard's Conan, but it didn't work because the game doesn't let you be truly Conanesque. When I got out of my car to do battle with the maniac he pwned me with a headshot from his handgun and I died.

[Angelone]

I kept getting randomly knocked up. It would give my this whole 5 weeks after your fateful night line, and BAM pregnant. No real reason twice I wasn't even seeing anyone.

[hyzmarca]

[Wounded Ronin]

[Ravor]

Well I would like to figure out what is required to be a lawyer, unless I was blind I didn't see a selection to attend a Law School and my character was among the best and the brightest.

[Velocity219e]

[Wounded Ronin]

[Ravor]

Naw, red isn't my color. :cyber:

[hyzmarca]

Kidnapped and killed twice by the same guy, then decided to play an absurdly aggressive female character and kicked the kidnappers butt (okay, ran like hell, but the result was the same). My character got pregnant in college for no apparent reason but when I decided to have a child later in life I was painfully disappointed by the fact that this requires a husband. There isn't even an option for making a withdrawl from the bank and intentionally being an ultra-slut didn't help at all..

[Wounded Ronin]

[Angelone]

You can be an ultra-agressive female when you're young. I beat up some kid who took my toy at the playground, and suckerpunched another baby. Still seem to be a baby magnet though.

[imperialus]

I made a 500,000 bucks re-inventing the burrito because I chose to "get creative" while pining for a snack instead of going to a fast food joint.

[hyzmarca]

This time, I was able to play a female character who became a successful lawyer and avoided pregnancy, the key to which seems to be absurd levels of aggressiveness, manipulativeness, and promiscuity tempered some thoughtfulness and compassion. Or it could just be that the huge amount of my character drank during infancy rendered her sterile.

Also, a homeless lady gave my character $50,000.

[SoyKaf Adict]

I died alone because my wife left me, so I porked my babysitter at age 50 and croaked... How's about that Walt Disney ending?

[Wounded Ronin]

This time, I was able to play a female character who became a successful lawyer and avoided pregnancy, the key to which seems to be absurd levels of aggressiveness, manipulativeness, and promiscuity tempered some thoughtfulness and compassion. Or it could just be that the huge amount of my character drank during infancy rendered her sterile.

Also, a homeless lady gave my character $50,000.

That's poetry. Imagine being the babysitter who presumably has a fetish for older people and who is in the middle of getting porked when aforementioned older person dies. PWNED!

[Whipstitch]

Ah, fell victim to "wait, the quote this post is on the BOTTOM of the message now?" trap, eh?

[Wounded Ronin]

Ah, fell victim to "wait, the quote this post is on the BOTTOM of the message now?" trap, eh?

Ack! Pwned indeed!

[Whipstitch]

I did it like three times when they switched it over. Took a flurry of editing on my part. I'm mostly just happy to know I'm not alone in the world.

[nezumi]

Money really is completely irrelevant. My character currently is about a million and a half in debt with her house and two jets, has no money left for lifestyle costs, has no job (and has never had one) and has as of yet to have any of her children or assets seized. As long as you dig yourself into the inescapable pit of debt in a single phase of life and never expect to buy anything ever again, that's all you need to do.

(If you're wondering how I bought a house without ever having held a job, let me say that personal loans are a good thing, and the bank doesn't seem to concerned where the collateral on the new loan came from.)