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Re: IIe/II+ Game: Black Box?
RitterSport wrote:
I'm trying to recall the name of a game. It was a puzzle game. There
was a grid with hidden objects in it. The player would send in a ray
and it would bounce off the object and come out someplace else (I think
it was all text based). Using logic, the player would find all the
objects.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Was it called Black Box? I've had
no luck finding it on any of the mirror sites (Asimov seems to be
down). Maybe it was part of a game package or something. Any help
would be appreciated.
RS
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RitterSport wrote:
> Knut wrote:
>
>>Black Box was the original name for the "physical" game. The computer
>>version probably had a different name to avoid copyright/registered
>>trademark. I think it was in a magazine, maybe the UK magazine PCW, I
>>think I ported it to TRS-80 basic.
>>
> Thanks for the reply. I thought there might have been a physical
> version of the game, but I couldn't figure out how it worked. Still
> can't.
I think it worked like master-mind, the other player would hide the
"atoms" (metal balls) and then show exit points when appropriate.
Possibly there were holes in the lid so that the other player could see
the balls he had placed. The player to deduce the place of the "atoms"
with the fewest "laser" beams would win. I think it was advertised as
the new master-mind.
It is a pity I didn't write a reference in my ported version, it is even
translated to Norwegian. I looked through some old magazines but
couldn't find it. I'm pretty sure I ported it (that it was not for
TRS-80). I did find the other games on the same cassette, both before
and after, but there is no guarantee that they are in chronological
order. If it is, it was about 1980/81.
Knut