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Alternate Reality: The City

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…

1 October 1985

Alternate Reality: The City is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Paradise Programmin, released 1 October 1985 on Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit and Atari ST/STE.

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What Alternate Reality: The City is

Alternate Reality: The City is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Paradise Programmin and released in 1985. It was published by Datasoft, Inc.. It is available on Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, iOS, Mac and TRS-80 Color Computer.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Alternate Reality: The City launched on 1 October 1985, within three weeks of Winter Games, Gauntlet and Starquake.

Released around the same time: Winter Games, Gauntlet, Starquake.

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When did Alternate Reality: The City come out?
Alternate Reality: The City was released on 1 October 1985 for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST/STE, Commodore C64/128/MAX, DOS, iOS, Mac and TRS-80 Color Computer.

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