Play MadMaze-II online here (Requires Internet Explorer). I personally have never made it that far, but if you do, you’ll end up on the legendary “Scroll of Heroes.” Good luck! After that, you proceed to level two and onward until you reach the end. She’ll help you defeat the troll on the first level of the maze. Here’s a shot of another “Place of Power” graphic, this time of Crone Matilda’s house.

Here are some more screenshots from the game: I love the innocent graphical style of MadMaze so much that I’ve even created a desktop background based on the MadMaze artwork. Still, if there was ever a reason to dust off IE (for those of you who have gone on to greener pastures), this is it. MadMaze-II plays almost exactly like the original the only down side is that it requires Internet Explorer to play. It’s been online since 2001, but I just stumbled across it recently and thought I’d share it with you. Thanks to the hard work of Russ Brown, nostalgiaphiles like me can relive their glory days with MadMaze-II, a meticulous recreation of the original MadMaze game on the web via HTML. And one of the best applications of this rarely used, bandwidth- friendly graphics protocol was Eric Goldberg and Greg Costikyan‘s very popular Prodigy adventure game, MadMaze. Many of you probably know of Prodigy, a pre-“popular Internet” era commercial dial-up online service that utilized copious amounts of NAPLPS graphics in its client interface. Overall, I was mostly underwhelmed with the service and my subscription didn’t last long, but there was one thing I really liked about it: the games. One hour (and one father’s credit card charge) later, I was online. On Christmas 1992, I finally got my wish: an orange cardboard box emblazoned with a blue star appeared under the Christmas tree. I loved BBSes and wanted to try Prodigy so badly.

When I was but a wee lad, I begged my father to sign me up for Prodigy.

Play prodigy math game old version