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

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Simon Williams (DONTemail@luddite.ca) wrote:


: 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.

--> I always found that "Gertrudes Secrets" was a great intro into
    "Rocky's Boots".  Myself (as a parent) and my kids, got a lot of
    fun, problem-solving skills, entertainment and learning (so I'm
    being redundant) from these two software packages.  For all the
    advancement in computer games - some of the simple one's I saw
    on the A2 line, were great learning tools that some of the most
    sophisticated bloatware of today, do not equal.  That's only a
    generalization and there's plenty out there now that knock the
    socks off earlier stuff - but there's still something to be said
    for some of the old stuff.

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