Re: Game name, I'm going senile...

[Simon Williams <DONTemail@luddite.ca>]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:01:45 EST Zaphod Beeblebrox <ozydedanaan@n.o.s.p.a.m.yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> There was a great puzzle game on the Apple ][ in the early '80s.  I can't 
> remember the name but here is what I do remember:
> 
> The object of the game was to push icons representing circuit boards 
> together to create computers.  Your character on the screen looked like a 
> mad scientist in a white lab coat.
> 
> If I remember correctly, you pushed two circuit boards together to make a 
> calculator, two calculators made a computer, etc.
> 
> I think it might have been from Beagle Bros.
> 
> Anybody help me out?
> 

I have one on disk called Rocky's Electric Boots, which sounds similar
though the "character" is just a blinking rectangle if I recall rightly.
You put together "machines" made up of various sensors and switches...
Come to think of it, it seems more likely it is intended to teach pro-
gramming than electronics... pretty neat anyway.

SW