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

From: Uncle Roger <sinasohn_at_ricochet.net>
Date: Thu Jun 25 00:35:28 1998

At 11:11 AM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
>>Robotron is also a video game ca. 1981-2 (Williams, iirc) that was
[...]
>>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

>What do you mean, there's no relation? They are both William's titles...and

Whups... Sorry. I occassionally get sensitive about my last name, and
when I was younger, I was the butt of a lot of jokes centered around my
name and that game. (Sinasohn, Sinistar.)

>Sinistar is the addition of 2 SRAMs, a different interface board (for dual
>joysticks), blitter clipper circuit and an additional sound board for

Robotron also had dual joysticks, so perhaps that was the same on both games?



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