This is a great game by Apple, recently converted by IBM. You are Keef, a boy who was thrown out by his family into a town similar to Las Vegas, NV, before the casinos. The game play is mouse driven, there is some combat, and some very nice looking women, but the real twist to this game is that you are allowed and encouraged to break into homes, and steal things. The authors had a different view on the Role Playing Game world, there are some similarities to this world, BMW horse merchant, Black Cross and Shield healers, I could list the rest of these little idiosyncrasies, but it would be more fun if you played the game.
Aside from the town, there are jungles, which have a variety of interesting things, such as mosquitoes. Scorpions, dragons, and mermaids. In addition, there is a wide range of spells that you can cast, all of the spells work, as long as you follow the Book of Lore, which is included in the game. Also you are a thief, who has an endless knack for getting into trouble, combat is primarily a lesson in how to click quick, the quicker you click the left mouse button, the more likely you are to survive. One other pointer about this is that in the upper right hand corner there is an indicator, green means you are fine, red means you were hit.
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good thing is that this conversion works with XP, which should be compatible with Windows 1995, 1998, maybe 2003. I have yet to try this on Vista, therefore I cannot be certain if it will work, but it should. I also like the fact that this version stayed to the exact color scheme that Apple used in the version I first played. The majority of these conversions have had some inherent flaw, unfortunately this one is no different, as the sound does not work on the XP version of Windows that I use, it is possible, in fact likely, that some other combination may work. The file with the program that you want to use is KEEF.BAT, which is one of several other items in the folders that come with the program. The other thing I dislike is that card game at the beginning. The original packaging came with a manual, which listed the correct order for the cards, but the program file I received did not. You should be able to guess which would be the correct values, due to the way the game recognizes different situations, if it picks the first, second, and third cards, it usually is looking for the fourth card.
I would give this game a seven out of ten, which happens to be the same score that I gave it the first day I played it, back in 1990. I know it has been out for a while, but sometimes the older games are better than the new ones, and this is one of those games.
