I can mostly read flow charts but it’s at the level of “this does _something_ to that” usually as I can never seem to remember the symbols

Oh that’s a cool concept. I always wanted to work with them but never got into making them for real. I can mostly read flow charts but it’s at the level of “this does _something_ to that” usually as I can never seem to remember the symbols.

But I love the flow. Even if I don’t know how two parts of a system relate, just that they relate is interesting.

A game like this would probably keep my interest. Try something, see what it does, try something else, see what it does, etc.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(video_game) Fascinating looking at some of the relateds in Wikipedia – I remember seeing this one from way back when and thinking it was a great idea.

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OMG THIS ONE…. this one… :: shuddering :::: – I was there. This game was released in 1984 and I remember wanting it… and then I had a chance to try it.

“it has been referred to as the hardest computer game of all time.”

Yes, oh that is true. That was so true.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/robot-odyssey/screenshots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Odyssey

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I hate the 4-color screenshots of old games they use. *I* had 16 colors and so did the games. I had 16 colors on my Coco, I had 16 colors on my Tandy 1000 TL.

ancient elitism.

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robot-ody

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I don’t have access to a playstation but I *do* have access to xroar, a functional memory of operating a Tandy Color Computer 2 (“Coco”), and was able to find a site that had the two Robot Odyssey I disks. Now I just made a 4 minute video on part of the first tutorial and I’ll be putting it on youtube.

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Had lunch inbetween last msg and this one but meanwhile, finished uploading my first short walkthrough – part of the first tutorial of Robot Odyssey I for the color computer.

This game always had my curiousity so I figured I’d _do_ something with that curiosity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjdNGVwrl0

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It might go even deeper. I was reminded of a game which reminded me of a game which some clicking led me to Robot Odyssey I, what’s been called “the hardest video game in history” by one reviewer, who took 13 years to complete it.
 
So, just before lunch, I found a copy of the disks for the Color Computer version (CoCo), launched the emulator xroar, got it running, and recorded a part of the first tutorial.
 
This game is from way back – 1984 – and required you to build the actual logic of a robot to get them to help you on your quests, which get successively harder.
 
This is what happens when you get PhDs to design a video game…….
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvjdNGVwrl0
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I hated the 4-color pictures of old games. I had 16 colors when they all had 4. [old elitism rears its head]
o I took this screenshot to recover my eyes from the 4 color abomination
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