[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