Alternate Reality: The City

Alternate Reality: The City is a first-person role playing game that was created by Phillip Price in 1985 for the Atari 8000. Three years later the game was ported for other systems such as the DOS, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, Atari ST, and the Amiga.
The game was originally intended to be part of a game series that included six games:
The City, The Arena, The Palace, The Wilderness, Revelations and Destiny.
The only games that were created were The City and The Dungeon. The second game the Dungeon was released in 1987.

Originally the game was supposed to be an inter-related game where you can jump from one alternate reality to another. If you wanted to jump from one game to another you were to receive a request to insert the disk for the next game. But the creators did not implement the concept anymore. And because the other games were no longer created they scrapped the idea altogether.
The plot of the game is this - you have just been abducted by aliens and when you go back to your senses you are in front of a gate with a row of machines that are similar to slot machines. There are rotating numbers on these machines. When you step through the gate you will find yourself in an alternate reality. In the case of this game, the alternate reality is a city. Because the series was never completed, the game does not have a solid story line. Supposedly at the very end of the series, you will find out that the bodies of different people are frozen in the ship and the minds are being fed different alternate realities. You will then have the option to return back to earth, or decide what to do with the ship. Because the series is unfinished, you are left with nothing but an opportunity to explore an alternate reality with no conclusion to the game.
The concept of the game is actually pretty interesting and the game itself is engaging. It would have been interesting if the original concepts for the game were implemented.
When playing the game, you will find the player statistics on the top of the screen. The statistics that will be readily available to you are the life energy or the health and strength. There are hidden statistics that are not shown to you and you will only become aware of with your interaction with other characters in the game. These statistics include hunger, thirst and other factors that may affect how you interact within the alternate reality. You need to be able to keep a balance in your statistics to do well in the game. The statistics definitely affect your game because there are certain statistics that can only be fulfilled within certain conditions.
Overall this is an interesting game with simple and working graphics. It’s worth downloading and keeping in your hard drive.