Pleroma

Pleroma

Richard Moss MossRC
The first game I ever played — a story I've told numerous times before — is now finally preserved properly and playable in a web browser, after years of working only partially and only in MESS/MAME (or on a real b/w Mac). This is the 1987 Mac port of Alternate Reality: The City, an ambitious, fascinating, and innovative open-world RPG first released on Atari 800 in 1985. https://archive.org/details/moofaday_Alternate_Reality_The_City
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Richard Moss MossRC
Turns out I still have the Alternate Reality: The City Mac box (though the disks are long gone).
Photo of the front box cover of the Mac version of old CRPG Alternate Reality: The City Photo of the fold-out inside-front box cover of the Mac version of old CRPG Alternate Reality: The City Photo of the back box cover of the Mac version of old CRPG Alternate Reality: The City

Richard Moss MossRC
Still got the manual and Mac reference card inside, too. It's in a really nice font and there's even a partially-drawn map inside that you can finish as you explore the world.
Mac reference card for Alternate Reality: The City First page inside of the manual for Alternate Reality: The City. This page has backstory on the game world. Another page inside of the manual for Alternate Reality: The City. This page has descriptions of some of the game's innovative features Another inside of the manual for Alternate Reality: The City. This page has a partially-drawn map on a 64x64 grid that you can finish as you play the game and explore its world.

Richard Moss MossRC
@Zodypop Agreed on both counts. It'd be a huge task to try to finish it and sort out all the loose ends, though.