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Alternate Reality Series

Alternate Reality: The City

Role-playing (RPG) Science fiction
October 1, 1985
Released 14823 days ago
Atari 8-bit Commodore C64/128/MAX TRS-80 Color Computer Atari ST/STE iOS Mac DOS Amiga Apple II

About

In Alternate Reality: The City, you are one of many people who have been abducted from earth by aliens and transported to an alternate dimension where you are dumped in a strange, yet familiar city. Your quest is to explore the city, and find the clues that will lead you to your captors and help you get back home.

In addition to standard first-person RPG features of that era, like skills, stats, experience points and a repertoire of shops and places to visit, the game offers moral evaluation of your character, and depending on your actions you become good or evil, and that affects how the environment reacts to you. Encounters are not necessarily just resolved with the turn-based combat system, but you can also try to trick, charm or bribe opponents. The storyline is non-linear, for example allowing you to take a job in order to enhance a particular skill or just to pass away time.

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Release Dates by Platform

Atari 8-bit Worldwide
Oct 1, 1985
Commodore C64/128/MAX Worldwide
Dec 1, 1985
Apple II Worldwide
Dec 31, 1985
Atari 8-bit Worldwide
Dec 31, 1985
Atari ST/STE Worldwide
Dec 1, 1986
Commodore C64/128/MAX Worldwide
Dec 31, 1986
Atari ST/STE Worldwide
Dec 31, 1986
Mac Worldwide
Nov 1, 1987
DOS Worldwide
Dec 1, 1987
Amiga Worldwide
Dec 1, 1987
TRS-80 Color Computer Worldwide
Dec 31, 1988
Amiga Worldwide
Dec 31, 1988
iOS Worldwide
Oct 28, 2011

Game Info

Developer
Paradise Programmin
Publisher
Datasoft, Inc.
Game Modes
Single player
Perspective
First person
Genres
Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Science fiction

Languages

Text / Subtitles
English

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