APPROACH THE ANCIENT KEEP

But apparently, for the first releases of AK1e and 2e they HANDMADE THE GAME CARTRIDGES after the publisher pulled out in 83

Then just kind of hid the copies in a couple places scattered around the US, hiding it in department stores and electronics stores for people to stumble on.

And, quote, "This is very important, you have to mention one was hidden in the giftshop of the University of New England's Natural History Museum."

so the ancient keep is a text based adventure game thats technically from i THINK the early 80s? That got buried in the gaming crash after ATARI fumbled the ball majorly

the devs (skullgrinder incorporated softworks) basically fully redo it every few years as a free download, but predominantly its pretty underground because they only ever upload it to places basically nobody can access before it gets shared. (A pentester found it in some backend access for a bank once?)

Anyway its a really weird but just unbelievably fascinating game if you can get your hands on it- the community are super gatekeepy so ive started posting some of my favorite endstates to this blog.

as far as the greater internet is concerned this game basically doesnt exist.