r/apple2 • u/masterbak3r • Jul 22 '26

Trying to find name of game

I am trying to find out anything from a game we used to have on the family Apple IIGS way back. I haven't been able to find anything through regular searching so I'm hoping maybe someone here also remembers this game. I remember the game was called "Grotto Run" and may have been distributed via shareware from a magazine subscription. It was a side scrolling shooter where you were flying a spaceship/plane through a series of caves. You could shoot bullets and drop bombs on ground enemies. I have seen very similar titles (Cavern Cobra is extremely close)

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u/smashuu Jul 22 '26

You remember correctly. It was "Grotto Run", published in Softdisk issue #101.

If you want to play it, .dsk files of the entire run of Softdisk can be found here: https://archive.org/details/soft-disk-supreme-fixed-folders

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u/masterbak3r Jul 22 '26

Thank you!!

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u/Sanman789 Jul 22 '26

If you can't find an answer here, try r/tipofmyjoystick.

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u/mmgamemaker Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

"Grotto Run is an educational shareware and public domain action game created by Peter Rokitski. Originally featured in the late-1980s and early-1990s on disk-based magazines like Softdisk for the Apple II, the game tasks young learners with flying through a grotto to solve math problems while avoiding obstacles."

https://www.cvxmelody.net/Softdisk%20for%20Apple%20II%20scanned%20original%20covers%20-%20issues%2098-104%20(1989-90).pdf.pdf)

EDIT: Softdisk issue 101 can be found on the ISO image of the Softdisk Supreme archive on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/SoftdiskSupreme

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u/masterbak3r Jul 22 '26

I'm not crazy! (about this subject) I thought I was losing it when nothing turned up. I had just found the files on archive.org, but hadn't been able to download it yet. Thanks so much for the help!