Comments on: Eamon https://setsideb.com/eamon/ The Flipside of Gaming Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:20:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: rodneylives https://setsideb.com/eamon/#comment-12421 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:20:55 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11109#comment-12421 In reply to Andrew.

I think it’s rather a mind-blowing idea even now! I think it’s an idea whose time has come again.

]]> By: Andrew https://setsideb.com/eamon/#comment-12420 Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:16:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11109#comment-12420 Thanks for the memories. I had Eamon on the Apple][ and at least one other adventure. That title graphic screen with the dragon is a classic.

I remember the games being a bit glitchy with odd bugs but the idea of moving a character from one game to another just blew my mind at the time.

]]> By: rodneylives https://setsideb.com/eamon/#comment-12320 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:27:07 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11109#comment-12320 Ah, thanks for the info! I’m so happy that Eamon is still around and played today. (I have come to understand that it’s not an acronym, so properly it’s “Eamon,” not in all-caps, I should correct the post.)

]]> By: Jason Dyer https://setsideb.com/eamon/#comment-12317 Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:58:50 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=11109#comment-12317 You can keep fleeing. The movement dynamic is actually one of the parts that makes the Eamon system “click”; pretty much all of the text-adventure-style RPGs at this time otherwise had combat systems that fell flat (just type KILL MONSTER until they die, or you do) but this one had the potential for dynamic action (if you read my post right after the one you linked on Lair of the Minotaur there’s a pretty good example).

You can also have situations where you chase monsters or have monsters actually have friendly reactions. It ends up sometimes feeling like a pitched battle in Doom where you can have encounters collide with each other.

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