#Adult alter ego game archive#

Also, this archive contains both Alter Ego Man and Alter Ego Woman, so play whichever you think is more suitable for you. The game runs fine in DOSBox, but you may experience problems under normal DOS. You confirm your selection by pressing Space (and not Enter) when you press Escape, you can access icons that don’t represent any specific situations like marriage icon, bank icon, statistics etc. This edition includes an updated interface and fixes bugs in the original version of the game, but the content of the game hasnt.

The current edition of the Alter Ego game is a production of Choose Multiple LLC.

This means objects and situations will not be explained literally, but rather how you perceive them with the experience you have. (Alter Ego was originally published in 1986 for the Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Apple II, and Macintosh. The game also reflects your age, so if you are two years old, you will see things through the eyes of a two-year-old kid. If you lied a lot, then probably your parents won’t trust you when you tell them it wasn't you who ate that ice-cream (honest!). Naturally, your reactions to different situations have their impact, so if you tended to play with matches when you were a baby, you probably wouldn’t be suitable for some jobs as an adult. The game covers a whole life, from birth to death. You decide how your character acts, be it as you would in reality or in a completely different manner. No, this game isn’t like The Sims (going to the toilet, taking kids to school etc.), but it's more focused on situations in one’s life. 'What if, at one point in my life, I had done one thing instead of another?' Well, now you have a chance to live a virtual second life, and try to take a different path in life. In my opinion, it’s still worth the fee simply based on the sheer amount of work the creator put into it.That’s the question most of us have asked ourselves at least once in our life. You can still purchase it from the same link for a nominal fee. Happy living!ĮDIT: It seems as of March 2015, Alter Ego is no longer free. Note that you can make a donation to the developer if you choose I’ll leave that up to you.

Since Alter Ego is free, you can get started right now by clicking on this link.

If you really feel you want to cheat, a rough walkthrough can be found here.

Because the game does include adult themes like sex, drinking, and drugs, it’s probably not appropriate for children.

Drugs are bad, even in Alter Ego, but you will be presented with choices about them.

Work early, and focus on school if you want to get into a good college and have the money to have interesting experiences.

Think about each response before you give it for example, picking the “safe” option constantly will lead to emotional problems later because you become boring. A few tips to follow when and if you play: Lesson learned! Sometimes the results are a little unexpected, so be wary of trick questions lest the game peg you as boring and unwilling to take any risks in life.Īll in all, this is an excellent game, even today. Then, I got kidnapped and had to start the game over. When I came across the childhood stage that had a stranger drive up and motion me towards his car, I got in the car. Sometimes I intentionally make bad choices just to see what will happen. Your choices within each of these dictate how your life will play out, how healthy you will be, and how happy you will be. Later down the road, in successive life stages, you will have access to school, vocational, and relationship icons where you can have a child, get married, attend college, or start your own business. Click the hourglass to skip a life stage or to see your current age. Click the graph bar to see where your stats stand, then and there. This tree is representative of all of the experiences you will have during each life stage. This is where the skills tree is presented. Once you’ve officially decided to be born (or you have been pushed out whether you like it or not), you’ll enter infancy.

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