Quarter classics (was: Big Iron Was:RE: Backwater areas Wa

From: Greg Troutman <mor_at_crl.com>
Date: Mon Jun 22 14:02:50 1998

Uncle Roger wrote:
>
> At 08:01 PM 6/18/98 +1, you wrote:
> >Robotron ?
> >
> >Talking about the East German Computers ?
>
> Robotron is also a video game ca. 1981-2 (Williams, iirc) that was
> semi-unique in that it used dual joysticks -- one to control movement and
> one to control firing direction -- and in order to be at all successful at
> the game one had to be able to operate the two completely independantly of
> each other. Other, similar games included Sinistar (no relation, and don't
> even go there) and one whose name I forgot that had to do with spiders and
> webs.

That would be Black Widow by Atari. Mesmerizing color vector game.
Stop by my garage some time if you want to play it ;)

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