[Coco] "Bomb Threat" game

[James Ross]

That is awesome Rick! Cool to see an accomplished CoCo programmer from back in the day getting involved in the hobby.  If you sell signed copies of it, definitely put me down for one. 

James

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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> on behalf of Rick Adams <rick at rickadams.org>
Subject: [Coco] "Bomb Threat" game

I developed this game long ago, hoping to sell it to Tandy. They opted
not to buy it, and I tried shopping it around here and there, but nobody
was interested. My kids loved playing it, fondly calling it "the tractor
game," but eventually they grew up and moved out...

The game was nearly forgotten, but I knew the floppy containing the game
was in a plastic box downstairs... and eventually I went to find it
again, only to find I have no idea where it is. Every once in awhile i
go looking for it again, but as of yet I haven't found it.

My kids were visiting and reminiscing a while back and one of them
suddenly remembered there was a VCR tape we made ages ago to use for
presentations I made at their elementary schools when they wanted a
visiting game developer to spice up the class. They ran downstairs to
the basement and found the tape, and that's where this gameplay video of
the game came from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2k9Jum0C2Q&t=1s

As for the game... you're in charge of a warehouse full of boxes of
merchandise, but some demented madman has strewn bombs all around, some
even inside the boxes! And it's up to you to save the merchandise before
the bombs go off. You have your forklift tractor to push the boxes away
from the bombs... or the bombs away from the boxes if you feel brave!

If you click the joystick button as you travel, one box at your rear
will be pulled along with you, and/or you can push any number of boxes
ahead of you. But watch out! Sometimes a box will be revealed as a bomb!
If a bomb goes off too near you, your turn is at an end. But if you can
stay alive until the last bomb goes off, you'll get points for every box
you saved.

Recently I started manually rewriting the game from scratch, my first
"new" Coco project in decades.  I am around 80% done.


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