Apple IIGS

The Apple IIGS was introduced in September 1986, when Apple already concentrated its forces on the Macintosh. It was comparable to an Atari ST or Amiga, but less powerful and twice as expensive. Strangely enough, it was not very successful.

Consequently, its relevance for gaming was very low. Maybe less than two hundred games were ported to it (on 2005-07-15, Fairway listed 134 that were officially reliesed, and fifteen that weren't), most of them in 1988. The only games ever developed especially for it seem to be Mancala by California Dreams and the obscure RPG 2088: The Cryllan Mission.

Artworx Strip Poker II	Strip Poker	87
The Bard's Tale I	RPG
Beyond Zork	Adventure
Roadwar 2000	strat
Space Quest I	Adventure
Arkanoid	Arcade	88
The Bard's Tale II	RPG
The King of Chicago
The Last Ninja	Action
Mancala by California Dreams	Mancala
Marble Madness	Arcade
Space Quest II	Adventure
Teenage Queen	Strip Poker			Unreleased
Tetris
Balance of Power	strat	89		1990 Edition
Blockout	Tetris
Dungeon Master	RPG
Neuromancer	Adventure
Dragon Wars	RPG	90
The Immortal	RPG
Pipe Dream	Puzzle
Puzznic	Puzzle			Unreleased	C
Out of this World	Adventure	92
Wolfenstein 3D	FPS	99		Year uncertain

Emulators

• KEGS32 for Windows.
• Bernie ][ The Rescue for PowerMac.
• casaGS.net has emulators for DOS and OS X.

Links

• A2Central.com — Your total source for Apple ][ computing.
• Apple II History by Steven Weyhrich is a very extensive history of the Apple ][ in all its versions.
• The Apple IIgs Gaming Memory Fairway