Re: Dung Beetles by Bob Bishop

[BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com>]

On Jul 22, 6:48 am, lyricalnan...@dosius.ath.cx (Steve Nickolas)
wrote:
> bloomer_au wrote:
> > When my dad bought the game for me here in Australia it was called
> > Magneto Bugs. It's funny, usually it's in the US where things get the
> > 'less offensive' title :) Of course this is now 20-something years ago.
>
> On the Tandy Color Computer it's "Mega-Bug", and is an official port
> released by the same company (although not written by Bishop).
>
> I also had an edition of the Apple version labelled "Tumble Bugs" (a
> tumblebug is, well, a dung beetle).
>
> -uso.

Oh, I almost forgot -- there's also a variation you can try which is
akin to the childhood game of "Hide and go **** yourself" where you
make a branch along your path and backtrack to your original course,
such that the split-off path points to a large open part of the play
area with no other trail pointing to you.  The beetle following it
will reach the end and just keep going, and hopefully in a direction
entirely opposite of wherever you happen to be at that point and will
have to wander around randomly before finding your trail again.

-B