actually, the first bigtime game which made me play for hours on
end was on my Apple II... it was Ultima II and then Ultima
III
in Ultima II, Minax was a right &*^$% and she was bloody hard
to kill.. each time you hit her, she'd have hit you 4 times... and
the she'll 'port to the other corner of the castle and you gotta
fight all the blasted Balrons to get to her again...
in Ultima III, Exodus was easy to destroy but the defenses to the
blasted machine was such that you were attacked by everything,
including the floor! but thank goodness the Wizard and Cleric had
multiple attacks which took care of most of the attacking horde
while the thief and fighter had ranged weapons..
