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GCP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-26-08 05:18 PM
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Anybody here ever play Robot Odyssey on the Apple IIC?
Edited on Sat Jul-26-08 05:22 PM by Godlesscommieprevert
It was a brilliant game by The Learning Company, which basically taught kids (and adults) programming and electronic principles (and gates, not gates etc). My kids were great at it, better than us oldsters!
The game was that the player was going to bed one night, suddenly a trapdoor opened in the floor and you found yourself in an underground city called Robotropolis. You had 3 robots which you could program to navigate mazes, trip puzzles and locks, the levels became progressively harder until you ended up with 4 robots tasked with pushing pistons in a pre-programmed sequence of a (I think, Ford Pinto). You had to do it all by programming the robots to do certain things at certain times, communicating with each other all the while.
It's hard to get across how brilliant this game was, but I wish it was still available.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey
http://members.aol.com/Fractal101/odyssey.htm
http://mysite.verizon.net/thomasfoote/DQ/id6.htm
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