[Coco] Spidercide

Mark McDougall msmcdoug at iinet.net.au
Thu Apr 2 19:17:33 EDT 2009


Rick Taylor wrote:


> 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".


Apparently not.

<http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/spidercide.html>

As Jeff mentioned, what you describe is a variant of the classic "Maxwell's
Demon" game. I first played this game on the TRS-80 Model I. I'm sure
_every_ 8-bit micro had their own version...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon>

Regards,

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