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Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: D. Peschel [mailto:dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 02, 1998 4:08 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Robot Odyssey?
I hope I didn't mention this before...
I'm looking for any versions of a game called "Robot Odyssey". It was
written
by The Learning Company and is a very unusual combination of an electronics
simulator and a 2-D adventure game.
The Apple ][ version sold especially well; there were three versions (1.0,
1.1, 2.0). I own an original copy of 1.0. I _had_ an original copy of 2.0
and sold it, and still feel really stupid. The only pirated copies are 1.0.
However, there were also versions for: the IBM PC (definitely exists), the
Tandy CoCo (almost definitely exists), and the Commodore 64 (probably
exists).
TLC may have promised others (Atari?) which were never released.
I'm posting here because:
- The kind of geeks on this list would probably love this game. :)
- The Apple newsgroups are a waste of time.
- No one at the VCF had any idea what I was talking about.
- Maybe someone knows the authors of the program? The receptionists
at TLC are (obviously) clueless, but I've heard that even talking
to higher-up people there is a waste of time. (This is from a Web
site I found.) So if there's any chance of getting "inside" info
on the program, the authors are it.
Thanks,
-- Derek
Received on Fri Oct 02 1998 - 18:53:21 BST