Re: Looking for ANCIENT Apple game

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <FnI47.7687$23.875275@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, 
"supportUSA.com" <incoming@supportUSA.com> wrote:

> Hi folks, I hope some of you are are "old-time" Apple
> users like myself.  I started using them back in 1979...and been hooked on
> computers ever since...
>
> Anyhoo, like the title implies, I'm looking for help locating the title of
> an ANCIENT game for the Apple II...
>
> I though the game was called something like ROGUE TROOPER or STAR WARRIOR,
> or something like that.  It was kind of like Crush Crumble & Chomp, except
> your a space guy, on a planet, running around shooting lasers at things,
> like hover cars, etc.
>
> I thought the release date was around 1980, and I though the publishing
> company was EPYX, becuase Crush Crumble & Chomp was from EPYX, but I looked
> up recorfds of epyx titles, and cant find anything about it...
>
> Does anyone know what I am talking about?  Sure could use some brain power
> on this one!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
> www.supportUSA.com

Back in school, it must have been about 1984, I was watching over someone's
shoulder as they loaded a game on an Apple IIe. The game was called Rogue
Trooper. It was slow to load and all I got to see was a couple of text
screens explaining some of the story behind the game, before I had to go to
my next class. I remember the name Rogue Trooper because there was a Rogue
Trooper series in the comic 2000AD. I was waiting to see if it had anything
to do with the comic (I don't think it did) when the school bell rang. I'm
still annoyed about that, but it's amazing the unimportant things you can
remember after 17 years :)

--
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
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