One of my favourite games, Starflight, was written in Forth.
The only animations were blinking dots, as I recall. It was mostly a text game with some 4 color still art.
I tried to get it to run on an emulator some decade or two ago, but I failed.
I happened to give my pilot 17 dexterity, instead of 20. And then I found the lab halfway through, where you can increase any stat by up to 3, and 20 was the max, anyway. This is the best drama a little kid could have accidentally created for himself.
Forget piloting. Ground battle sick mode unleashed. Vibroblade at 20 dex was like waving a light saber at a popsicle. Ice tigers and raiders? Just another walk in the park. To hoard ammo, I gave the expensive assault rifle to my engineer, who would only fire 1 shot before going into a coma.
edit:
Doh.. no that was a different game. I did quite like this one, too. I don't think there was any animation, at all, in this. Hmm. IIRC, the other game I can't remember came out a few months before Starflight, same year, probably. Starflight... super large universe filled with great stuff to find. Like the word "obelisk." Yea! You'd find these super rare things, and all it is is a word in your inventory of other words that 6-yr-olds don't know the meaning of. Then you'd find another obelisk, and now you'd have two of "obelisk." Great!
Ok, I was probably too young to fully appreciate this game.
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