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Re: looking for game



In article <1993Nov13.211513.23287@cs.uwp.edu>,
Timothy Fossum <fossum@cs.uwp.edu> wrote:
>I'm looking for an APPLE ][ game I played about 10 years ago.  Since
>it's been a long time, I may not be able to describe it properly,
>but I'll try.  On each level, there are rectangular regions that are
>circumnavigated by worm-like things.  You have to shoot the head of
>the worm, or it separates in two and gets longer.  Anyway, the object
>of the game is (I think) to navigate through the region, picking up
>stars (?) until you get all of them, at which point you go to the next
>level.  You only see part of a given level at a time, but the geometry
>of each level is the same (i.e., not random).  I think you also may
>be attacked by other things that rove through the maze, and you must
>remove them before you can go to the next level.  I can remember that
>I never got past the second level (not much of a game player).
>
>I think the game had the word "star" in it, but I may be wrong...

It sounds a bit like you're describing "Starmaze", by Sir-Tech many
many years ago. Perhaps mingled with memories of an older, weirder Sirius
game whose title I can't remember ("Pulsar/Wormwall"?).

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