[Coco] Exploring Atari Adventure ... on the CoCo

[Bruce W. Calkins]

I have both Robot Odyssey and Rocky's Boots for the Color computer.

Bruce W.



On 12/30/20 5:34 PM, Lee wrote:
> I watched that Warren Robinett video (
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yINb5Huh0C4).  Very interesting!  At the
> end he was asked about another of his games, Rocky's Boots.  The
> description of it sounded very much like a game a friend of mine and I
> played on the CoCo "back in the day" called Robot Odyssey that we still
> talk about today.  I dug into it a bit and it turns out that Warren
> Robinett wrote Rocky's Boots based on the Adventure "engine" (or maybe his
> memory of the code, don't know if he retained the rights to the Adventure
> code) after he left Atar, and Robot Odyssey was written based on Rocky's
> Boots code by the same company (The Learning Company) but apparently not by
> Warren Robinett.  Interesting history, and I love how it tied into my own
> very fond childhood (late teens) memories with the CoCo. :)
> 
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> Lee
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