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  • Originally posted by Dale
    Cool! This is one I know!!!!

    Been a long time.

    This game would HAVE to be Fiendish Freddy!!!!
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    • Okay, here's the next game:

      Clue 1:

      In '81 I was all the rage.
      Continuously dubbed one of the best of the age.
      Design and program me, let me fight too,
      Predominately played on an Apple II.


      That should be enough to get you started.

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        • 81? Good lord.
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          • There were games in 1981? Asteroids, or something probably.
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            • First game that came to mind was Mail Order Monsters but that was on my C 64. My cousin was an Apple II weirdo (back then there were two camps Appleheads and Commodore owners) that had something with Robots and programming them it was called War of the Robots or something like that.

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              • Cap:
                Hahaha. Anything to keep them guessing!

                Buck:
                Yep, sure was in '81.

                Clue 2:

                Ghengis almost got my name,
                But that particular one never had the fame.
                To drop a name I'd say Warner,
                Can Ghengis or someone get any warmer?

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                • Originally posted by Dale


                  To drop a name I'd say Warner,
                  Ride of the Valkyrie? No wait, that was Wagner.

                  Seriously, this is out of my area of expertise without Google assistance, I was just hoping my ramblings could help someone with Apple II experience guess it.

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                  • Wasn't Castle Wolfenstein written by someone called Warner?

                    That said, it doesn't really fit the clue I don't think - but it's about the right time isn't it?

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                    • Clue 3:

                      The Duke gives a game that gave us all some kicks,
                      But I'm number 85 in CGW '96.
                      And you MUSE in your seat when it is over,
                      "This game seems a lot like a complex MindRover!"


                      There's a HEAP of clues in that one!

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                      • hmmm it wasn't 'Robotron' was it?

                        In 81 i was a computer virgin, only one other of my friends had a computer, and i was the one with the ZX81. And yeah it played games.............sort of

                        Come to think of it , most of the gaming satisfaction came from succesfuly typing up the game into the computer and getting it to run - that was reward enough, especially on that horrible keyboard........
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                        • I was born in 1981. This game is probably older than me. So it's basically a midrover type "design and program" game, but I've never played one from that era or even seen an apple II (I got my ZX81 in 1987 for ****'s sake).
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                          • Okay, here's Clue 4:

                            CoT says, "Is it Robotron?"
                            But that game starred a Human.
                            In my game I am a robot.
                            The arena was what put me on the top.

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                            • That one doesn't rhyme.

                              I'll guess, totally randomly (since I don't know this one), "Robot Arena". The clue seems to suggest it.
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                              • Seeing clue 3 pointing to Mindrover (robot programming) it has to do something with programming. All I can think of is Origin's Omega for the moment .
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