Alternate Reality: The City

ReleasedOctober 1985

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.

Developer: Paradise Programmin
Publisher: Datasoft, Inc.
Genres: Role-playing (RPG)
Themes: Science fiction
Modes: Single player
Perspective: First person
Also known as: Alternative Reality Part I: The City, Alternative Reality Part 1: The City

Release dates

Release dates by platform
Platform	Release
Amiga	December 1987 · North America1988 · Europe
Apple II	1985
Atari 8-bit	October 1985 · North America1985 · Europe
Atari ST/STE	December 1986 · North America1986 · Europe
Commodore C64/128/MAX	December 1985 · North America1986 · Europe
DOS	December 1987
iOS	Oct 28, 2011
Mac	November 1987
TRS-80 Color Computer	1988