Want to live an entire life from birth to death in 8 bits and with very limited choices? You can! "Alter Ego" makes it possible. This game is actually fun to play, but very limited as far as an actual life simulation, and that is what it tries to be... a life simulator. Now, obviously the complicated nature of a human life (any life for that matter) is hard to simulate on an 8 bit computer like the C64, I know we can't do it with the supercomputers of today, but "Alter Ego" plays less like a simulator and more like, I know I say this a lot... A choose your own adventure. Ok, so it's a choose your own adventure of a life, and you can live a Male or Female life. The C64 had two separate versions for Male and Female, so you had to decide what version you wanted and buy that one back in the day. I did own this game as a kid, and I did like it. I like it still because it's easy and entertaining to be presented with situations, choose a path, and then see what the results of your choices are... OMG, it IS a life simulator. You get to choose what phase of life you want to start at from infancy to old age, and you can have the computer choose a base personality for you, or you can make a custom personality. If you choose to do the custom thing you will have to complete a short psychological test that asks some questions you might have seen on a personality test in Psychology 101. This game has no graphics to speak of and is almost all text, it is three floppies large, so that's a lot of text. It's worth a play if you like something a little more serious and pensive in your vintage game experience.
Alter Ego: Male on Gamebase64
Alter Ego: Female on Gambase64
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