House of Usher (Anirog / Kingsoft) for the Atari 8-bit family
5Came also out for:
Commodore 64
Game description:
House of Usher is a platform game, in which you can choose in which room you want to start and to which other room you want to go next.
You have to collect all the numbers in the rooms. Be warned though, should you go out of the room without a number, you can't go back to that room and get the number, as the door will be automatically closed after you leave the room.
What I think:
I love how you can select to which room you want to go and that the rooms offer variety.
I do not, however, love how frustrating the game is. Climbing ladders is a pain and sometimes your guy refuses to jump. Also, you have to be pixel-perfect when it comes to jumps. Well, you also have to pixel-perfect in the first room when you have to land on the right platform in time...