Name the game - Part 10!

[CapTVK]

Next clue


To give away another meme
I'll say it's got a spacey theme
The goal is to take control of any bot
And in the process not get shot

[child of Thor]

Body blows (Galactic was the spacey version)? not sure about it having a C64 vrsion though?

[DrSpike]

I was going to guess that, and didn't for that exact reason. The version I played was well after the C64 days.

[child of Thor]

Well i know people still program/convert stuff for the C64, so maybe?

I'm thinking of a game that had robot ninja's...but cant remember what it was called, so i made my number2 guess

[CapTVK]

Nope, still not it. It's a mid 80's game people, not 90's

They still do CoT, although C64 heavy coding is becoming a lost art (e.a assembler). I would love to hear about the robot ninja's however

[DrSpike]

Maybe we need more clues.

[child of Thor]

its not Robotron2084 is it?

[CapTVK]

Not Robotron either

[child of Thor]

ok how about Paradroid then?

[CapTVK]

Originally posted by child of Thor
ok how about Paradroid then?

Yes, that it is


In paradroid you were a bot that had to take control of a ship that was filled with killer robots, some harmless like messenger bots but also combat bots. Every bottype had a specific number. The higher the number on a bot the more powerful it (generally) was.
What set paradroid apart was that you also had the ability to "influence" (control) other robots by bumping into them and take over their minds.

There's an excellent remake at

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/

[child of Thor]

It was a cult classic of a sort - i think it was by the same guy who later did 'Uridium' to great acclaim. It was definately a thinking mans shoot up

I'll post one tomorrow, so that should give everyone time to shift into atari8bit mode

[DrSpike]

I remember Uridium, but not Paradroid.

[child of Thor]

ok time to play

Clue1:

by this time games of this genre had started to move into full 3D, but this was a kind of pseudo 3D - and very beutifully done non the less.

'the master of dungeon gone, all beheld the dragon eye'

[snoopy369]

Um, a wrong guess: Pools of Radiance.

[CapTVK]

Dungeon Master?