[Coco] Spidercide

[Roger Taylor]

At 02:05 AM 4/2/2009, you wrote:

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>Is this the game where your space bar controlled a line in the middle of the

>screen, which you could turn off and on, and where there were a bunch of

>spiders roaming around aimlessly?





>The idea was to trap all the spiders in the upper half of the screen. The

>game constantly played a MIDI version of the Beatles' "When I'm 64".

>

>Aaaauauauaugh! That game used to drive me crazy! So simple but so frigging

>hard! I have a love/hate relationship with that game and used to play it for

>hours.

>

>- Rick



I remember writing it to where it was *just* difficult enough to tick 
the player off into trying again, and again, and again.  I put the 
same touch into the Jeweled game.  There's just something there can 
keep you playing longer than you first intended to.


-- 
Roger Taylor

http://www.wordofthedayonline.com