Ocean took Michael Ende's world and, instead of the usual movie-licence action game, made an illustrated text adventure: Atreyu, Falkor and the quest to save Fantasia from the Nothing, told through pictures and a parser waiting for typed English commands.

I loved the film, so this went straight onto my cassette pile, one of the few originals I bought. And then it beat me. I was too young, the parser wanted English I did not fully have yet, and the Nothing advanced while I fumbled for verbs. I never saved Fantasia, but I did not stop trying for a long time.

The Neverending Story (C64, 1985) in-game screenshot
The Neverending Story on the C64, 1985