Alter Ego

From thecrankyhermit

Alter Ego
Companies Activision
First release date 1986
Original platform(s) Commodore 64
Current official platform(s) Official source port: Mobile

RPGlike

Alter Ego
To my knowledge, the only RPG that was ever principally developed by a PhD-holding psychologist. You guide your Alter Ego from birth to old age (maybe) through a long series of life vignettes, each of which contains decisions to make and plenty of possible outcomes, some subtle, some not so subtle. The childhood phase can be tedious to replay as you have few life-changing decisions to make, but nevertheless plays a pivotal role in shaping your personality and other attributes, and in turn the life paths and scenarios available in adulthood. Came in "Male Version" and "Female Version" variants, with differing life scenarios in each.