“For me a hallmark of developing a retro or a retro-style game is working within those limitations,” he says. “For a lifelong Apple II fan, that’s like getting a blessing from the Pope.”Īpple II games may seem primitive by today’s standards, but Craddock thinks that many of them are just as much fun to play as anything on the market. “Steve Wozniak was gracious enough to take the time, not only to agree to do it, but then when Nox Archaist launched in December, he tweeted out that he’s an NPC in Nox Archaist,” Lemmert says. Lemmert was particularly excited to be able to include a cameo from Steve Wozniak, inventor of the Apple II.

Many of those developers also appear as characters in Nox Archaist. “Everyone I talked to thought it was a really cool idea and sent me a ton of stuff.” “The cool thing about all the pictures-concept art, illustrations, and so forth-that I included is that all of those came from Richard Garriott, Brian Fargo, and Jordan Mechner,” Craddock says. Craddock explores the history of Apple II games in his 2017 book Break Out, which is packed with photos and screenshots.

Decades later, inXile Entertainment released two proper sequels: Wasteland 2 (2014) and Wasteland 3 (2020).Most of the video games that are popular today were influenced by Apple II games such as Ultima, Castle Wolfenstein, Prince of Persia, and Wasteland. The game's general setting and concept became the basis for Interplay's 1997 role-playing video game Fallout and the Fallout series. Critically acclaimed and commercially successful, Wasteland was intended to be followed by two separate sequels in the 1990s, but Electronic Arts dropped claims of Fountain of Dreams being a sequel and Interplay's Meantime was canceled.

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