Hello,
I have been trying to find the name of a game that I remember playing as a child. This would have been around the year 1987 or so. This was a game for either Mac or Apple II and it was on a floppy disk. I only played this game at school, as my family did not have a computer. The game was called something like "ZaZu Come Home", but that's not the right name as I have never been able to find any info on it. Here is what I remember about the game:
* There was a title screen that I believe had purple as a background. I remember the word ZaZu or something like it. This made me think of the "ZuZu's petals" from It's A Wonderful Life (the name of the little girl in that movie), only it was different. But I remember asking my teacher if the word "ZaZu" was the name of that character and she corrected me. So I am 95% that a word similar to "ZaZu" is involved in the name of this game.
* The point of the game was to rescue someone (ZaZu) or find that person. The player was on an alien planet, I believe.
* The game was based on creating things using different potions. The potions were all new elements that were discovered on this alien planet. Combining different elements creates different objects. Some objects were useful and some were not. It was a turn based game, so when you told the computer what you wanted to do next and what elements you wanted to combine, the computer would then tell you if the object got you past the obstacle and onto the next level or if you wasted your turn with an object that did not work in the situation.
* For instance, combing the rubber element (called something like Rubberium) with the air element (called something like Airium) would create a tire?and that would be useful in getting around an obstacle. But combining the rubber element with the fire element (called something like Flamium or Fireum) would just make stinky burning rubber smell.
* The point was to be clever and combine the elements in ways that would create the right object for the situation that would get you around whatever obstacle. I never beat the game or got very far into it, so I don't know what other elements there were.
This game was one of only a few that we had at my school. The floppy disks and computer were brand new and expensive at the time, and it was a big deal to be able to play this game. The only other games available to play were Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and some math games. The ZaZu game was purely a fun game. The teacher would use it as a prize if you were good in class and you got to play on the computer with this game for 30 minutes or whatever as your special prize.
Does anyone remember the name of this game?
I have been trying to find the name of a game that I remember playing as a child. This would have been around the year 1987 or so. This was a game for either Mac or Apple II and it was on a floppy disk. I only played this game at school, as my family did not have a computer. The game was called something like "ZaZu Come Home", but that's not the right name as I have never been able to find any info on it. Here is what I remember about the game:
* There was a title screen that I believe had purple as a background. I remember the word ZaZu or something like it. This made me think of the "ZuZu's petals" from It's A Wonderful Life (the name of the little girl in that movie), only it was different. But I remember asking my teacher if the word "ZaZu" was the name of that character and she corrected me. So I am 95% that a word similar to "ZaZu" is involved in the name of this game.
* The point of the game was to rescue someone (ZaZu) or find that person. The player was on an alien planet, I believe.
* The game was based on creating things using different potions. The potions were all new elements that were discovered on this alien planet. Combining different elements creates different objects. Some objects were useful and some were not. It was a turn based game, so when you told the computer what you wanted to do next and what elements you wanted to combine, the computer would then tell you if the object got you past the obstacle and onto the next level or if you wasted your turn with an object that did not work in the situation.
* For instance, combing the rubber element (called something like Rubberium) with the air element (called something like Airium) would create a tire?and that would be useful in getting around an obstacle. But combining the rubber element with the fire element (called something like Flamium or Fireum) would just make stinky burning rubber smell.
* The point was to be clever and combine the elements in ways that would create the right object for the situation that would get you around whatever obstacle. I never beat the game or got very far into it, so I don't know what other elements there were.
This game was one of only a few that we had at my school. The floppy disks and computer were brand new and expensive at the time, and it was a big deal to be able to play this game. The only other games available to play were Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and some math games. The ZaZu game was purely a fun game. The teacher would use it as a prize if you were good in class and you got to play on the computer with this game for 30 minutes or whatever as your special prize.
Does anyone remember the name of this game?
