Name a game that has been released with 0 bugs

[Kuciwalker]

IIRC that had a few bugs in it. I that game.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
IIRC that had a few bugs in it. I that game.

Elite had bugs?? Not the C64 version that made me waste my live

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Slow

Its not that slow when you get past level 1.

[Kuciwalker]

Ah, my mistake. I can only find reports of bugs for Frontier: Elite II

[Hueij]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Ah, my mistake. I can only find reports of bugs for Frontier: Elite II

Hehe, now that was a bug fest. Still an awesome game thoug.

[DrSpike]

I used to crash on landing sometimes for no reason. That was a nasty bug.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Its not that slow when you get past level 1.

I meant somebody else beat you to naming Tetris.

[DrSpike]

He always skimsies.

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by DaveV
Civ 1 had some cute bugs: for example, there was a way to wake up a settler and do terrain improvements in one turn that should have taken a lot longer.

I remember this quote from one of my computer science classes: "no non-trivial program is ever bug-free". It's a good excuse now that I'm working as a programmer: "what, you want me to write a trivial program?" .

Ah yes, Civ1 had some true nice ones....like building rails ONTO the ocean and who remembers the more infamous "ghost country"-bug where new swathes of land would appear near the edge of the map. I only saw this whilst playing on the original worldmap and a part of the tundra in north America dissappeared and be replaced with lush green lands that appeared to go on beyond the poles.

Cool! (I thought, knowing it was a sort of a bug). I wonder what would happen if i build a city there? Not too much surprise the new lands quickly were gone including my city. It never reappeared on the map.

So until this very day, somewhere there remains a city and some settlers stranded in that twilight zone.

[CapTVK]

Most arcade games were generally bug free. With notable exceptions like paperboy for example. They had to be because patching up a PCB is a bit of a hassle once they're in the arcade.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
Nope. On my dad's chess game, the computer sometimes cheats and creates or destroys pieces when it gets in check or checkmate. And if you actually take the king, really weird stuff can happen.

No, chess. With pieces on a board.


I'm pretty sure I found a bug in Skifree as well. Don't remember.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by DrSpike
I used to crash on landing sometimes for no reason. That was a nasty bug.

That wasn't a bug. When landing ona planet with an atmosphere you had to turn on (or off, I can't remember) the whatchamacallit...

Anyways, you can download Elite 2 from David Braben's site now, it's shareware with most of the bugs gone. I visit the Elite newsgroup every now and then and there seems to be quite a large community of Elite players still playing the game.

Imagine a multiplayer Elite... :droolingsmileyhere:

[DrSpike]

Nah, there was a bug as well. It would work fine with no changes after a reload.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Nope. On my dad's chess game, the computer sometimes cheats and creates or destroys pieces when it gets in check or checkmate. And if you actually take the king, really weird stuff can happen.

We never figured out what caused it.

When evaluating which move to make next, AI in games work on trying achieve the best score possible, perhaps when faced with defeat the computer puts extra pieces on the board to up its score and stave off defeat.

I know one way of telling the computer not to lose it's king is to make it worth more than all the other pieces combined, so no position will ever score worse than the computer losing it's king. Maybe putting more pieces on the board or taking the opponents off is a way around that?

[Nikolai]

Only Tetris of those I have played. And maybe RISK for Windows, I don't remember.