At Automated Simulations, we produce our games under the name of EPYX. You'll be seeing more and more of that EPYX name, and when you do, you'll know you're getting the high quality you've come to expect (and deserve) from us. As is our tradition, we will continue to bring you that same high quality in all of the new titles in this catalog. We believe that games should be fun , challenging and intellec­ tually stimulating. To be worth your money, and, more important, your time, a computer game must first be a good game. That's why we design the game before we design the program. That's also why each of our games is play-tested for hundreds of hou·rs before the game system is final. We want you to know that you're getting a game that's worth your time. Because we feel that a good game has to provide the player with many alternatives and ways to affect the outcome, our games are Ri cochet is the first abstract action­ more complex, with more options, than most computer games strategy game designed for play on available. But insofar as possible, we keep the complexity of the your home computer. Every time mechanics of play, ·and the rules, to a minimum, leaving you free you play, you'll find Ricochet to be to concentrate on your playing strategy. challenging, thought-provoking and We must be going in the right direction, since the best recom­ fast moving. But the game is over as soon as one mendations for our products come from satisfied customers. Here GET A MILLION POINTS! are a few quotes from our files : player has launched all of his shots, You 've got two launchers you fire so don't wait for that perfect angle, "[ just purchased 'Rescue at Rigel' and this has made me a at your opponent's goals. 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You are assigned on another level, the strategic "[n addition to hauing the most consistently excellent products . .. a rating (by your computer), based subtleties will keep challenging you you haue the best seruice department [ haue dealt with in the on how well you play against your for years to come. industry." computer opponent or against another human. Your rating improves • Color graphics for the APPLE* "[ just finished 'Hellfire Warrior.' [ didn't know a program could when you win the match. Can you and ATARI* be this much fun." top a million? • Five game variants " ... the only games [ buy are your DUNJONQUEST and Match victory is yours when you STARQUEST games. 'Star Warrior' was fabulous.'" win two out of three games (or three • Four levels of skill out of five, depending on the variant). • Player rating system "Just want to say thanks for another great software product. Of The match is self-handicapping, course, I'm talking about 'Dragon's Eye' . ." so you get an edge-of-your-seat • For ages 8 to adult " ... your games are the best entertainment programs [ haue seen battle every time. • Complexity: Introductory for my computer." OUTWIT YOUR OPPONENT! • Playing time: 10 minutes to "Thank you uery much for 'Rescue at Rigel.' Like 'The Temple,' Six pieces are your Chessmen. hours of fun it is prouiding me and my friends with endless enjoyment. 'The You maneuver them to block your • For one or two players (or Temple' has giuen me the greatest pleasure since [ bought my goals from attack, while setting up computer." the best possible shot for yourself. even three) DUNJONOUESf DUNJONOUESf 1emple of Apshai Upper Reaches of Apshai For the true Temple of Apshai aficionado, Perhaps a sizable horde, maybe a healing The Upper Reaches of Apshai is the first in potion- or something even more intriguing­ Now, you can enter a universe in which a series of expansion dunjons for the remain within the cleric's realm. • Animated with color graph­ award-winning "Temple ." quick wit, the strength of your sword arm ics and sound effects! In The Upper Reaches of Apshai, you'll and a talisman around your neck might be The Upper Reaches of Apshai has four be walking on eggs in search of . .. Who what separates you from a pharoah's price­ • Real time! fun levels and over 150 rooms, gardens, knows? In Olias' cellar may lie the sword less treasure - or the death-grip mandibles berry patches and caverns. Horrible and shield he took from you, oh, so many • A fantasy role-playing moons ago . of a giant mantis. monsters, from giant tomatoes to killer experience! Take your favorite character along, or have Enter the 'Temple of Apshai',' the first in chickens, lurk in the Innkeeper's backyard. • For ages 10 through adult the Innkeeper generate a new one for a our DUNJONQUEST series, the computer Discover the secrets of Benedic's combined indoor and outdoor adventure. game that offers you the chance to perform • Complexity: Intermediate Monastery and the cottage of Merlis the Be warned, though, The Upper Reaches herioc deeds in a labyrinth filled with treas­ Mage. What of all those donations adven­ of Apshai is not a complete game. You must • Playing time: 30 minutes turers have made to Benedic over the years? ures, traps and monsters. to forever! have Temple of Apshai to play. Animated color graphics portray the 'Temple" and all its contents-magic, • For one player monsters, doomed cities and damsels in distress. Do battle in real time, with over 20 monsters, each represented by a unique GAME CONTENTS: graphic shape. Special sound effects Book of Lore intensify your quest, with arrows flying, - Command Summary Card wings beating and footsteps approaching in the dark.· - Game program & data files "Temple of Apshai" is a role-playing for your computer game, and more. It's an alter-ego experi­ ence. Complex factors that make up a human being are abstracted into a few basic characteristics: strength, constitution, dexterity, intelligence and ego. Via your Curse of Ra role-playing character, you'll venture into an unknown world, and be at home with Second in a series of expansion mod­ create magic powerful enough to over­ the likes of skeletons, zombies, spiders ules for Temple of Apshai, "the comp­ come the curse. and wraiths. uter game of the year" award winner, When you play the 'Temple of Apshai," Curse of Ra takes you on a journey into But the fortunes within are guarded by you'll be both a character within and a the deserts of ancient Egypt. the demons of Ra. The cobra, the jackel, reader of the epic you're actually helping the mummy and more all roam freely to create. In this labyrinth, the choice is Four great constructs rising up from the about more than 100 chambers. Each always yours ... fight or flee, parry or Great Desert preserve the wealth of gen­ with but one purpose. thrust, slay the monsters or see if they'll erations dedicated to the sun god, Ra, listen to reason . lord of the ancient Egyptian gods. Take your heartiest Temple of Apshai We invite you to project yourself into Temple of Apshai during play on the Apple computer. But legend holds, he who violates the veteran, or a new adventurer, in search the labyrinth. See and touch the treasures, of the solution to the Curse of Ra. hear and smell the creatures that inhabit treasures shall carry the Curse of Ra into infinity. the place. Discover for yourself the fantasy Curse of Ra is an expansion module for world of Apshai! It is said that four of the treasures-{)ne Temple of Apshai. You must have Tem­ • Graphics and sound effects are subject to machine limitations. from each edifice-when combined, can ple of Apshai to play. DUNJONOUESf DUNJONOUESf HellfireWirrior The Keys of Acheron The mage spoke in low tones : "Your first On your journey, you'll meet a friendly quest will take you to a world not far unicorn with a magical necklace to help you The sequel to the best-selling "Temple of • Graphics! Computer-generated separated from our own. Once there, you in your search. But to reach him, you must Apshai," "Hellfire Warrior" gives you the map! (Apple uses high­ must find the secret passage to the cave cross the dark and fearsome mandrake challenge of more command options and resolution & color!) where The Dragon has secreted the key ... " forest. Other monsters inhabit the dim and more detail than you've ever imagined I So begins your next adventure as a Hellfire frightful places through which you must pass Four new le ve ls with sixty rooms each will • Real time! Warrior. Four magical jewels, the keys, to reach the four keys.