RoboSport

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RoboSport
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Developer(s) Maxis
Presage Software (Windows) [1]
Publisher(s) Maxis
Designer(s) Edward Kilham
Platform(s) Windows, Macintosh, Amiga
Release1991
Genre(s) Turn-based tactics
Mode(s) Multi-player

RoboSport is a 1991 turn-based tactics computer game. It was created by Edward Kilham and developed and published by Maxis. [2] [3]

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The player creates teams of robots and maneuvers them around a board to map out one "turn" of movement. The other players and AI do the same and then all movement is played out simultaneously. The robots are equipped with different weapons, including rifles, grenade launchers, and so on. The game supports multiple modes such as capture the flag and a "hostage" game.

Maxis developed this game for DOS, Macintosh and Windows 3.x. In 1992, it was converted by The Dreamers Guild and released for the Amiga. [4]

Reception

The game was reviewed in 1991 in Dragon #172 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. [6] Computer Gaming World praised the Windows version of RoboSport for its excellent user interface, ease of programming, and quick play. The magazine concluded that it was "at least three excellent games crammed into one nearly seamless sport". [7] A later article reported that the game depicted small arms and combined arms tactics better "than many computer wargames dedicated to the subject". [8] A 1994 survey in the magazine of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game three-plus stars out of five. [5] Alfred Giovetti, writing for Compute! , praised the game for the flexibility of programming computer robots that would then fight providing an interesting outcome. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Presage Products - RoboSport". presage.com. Archived from the original on June 14, 1997. Retrieved February 2, 2024.
  2. ↑ Playing at War, Once Removed by L.R. Shannon - New York Times article (Aug 11, 1992)
  3. ↑ RoboSport for Windows by Alfred C. Giovetti - Compute! (Feb 1993)
  4. ↑ Robosport reviews at Moby Games
  5. 1 2 Brooks, M. Evan (May 1994). "Never Trust A Gazfluvian Flingschnogger!". Computer Gaming World. pp. 42–58.
  6. 1 2 Lesser, Hartley; Lesser, Patricia; Lesser, Kirk (August 1991). "The Role of Computers". Dragon (172): 55–64.
  7. ↑ Cooper, Jim (December 1992). "Maxis' RoboSport for Windows". Computer Gaming World. p. 96. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
  8. ↑ Cirulis, Martin E. (February 1993). "A Replay of Maxis' RoboSport". Computer Gaming World. p. 84. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
  9. ↑ RoboSport for Windows by Alfred C. Giovetti - Compute! (Feb 1993)
  10. ↑ "Amiga Reviews: Robosport".
  11. ↑ "CU Amiga Magazine Issue 036". February 1993.
  12. ↑ "Robosport review from ACAR Vol 10 No 1 (Jan 1993) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  13. ↑ "Robosport review from the One Amiga 52 (Jan 1993) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  14. ↑ http://www.kultboy.com/index.php?site=t&id=4554 [ bare URL ]
  15. ↑ "Robosport review from Amiga Power 21 (Jan 1993) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
  16. ↑ "Amiga reviews: Robosport". amigareviews.classicgaming.gamespy.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  17. ↑ "RoboSport review from Amiga Magazine 21 (May - Jun 1993) - Amiga Magazine Rack".
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