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Searching for the name of a retro game
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
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Sep 2, 2007, 07:00 PM
 
A long time ago, when I was like... 6 or something, we had an old performa or something.
On this computer was a game where you played the role of a red-ish pacman-ish ball, eating green peaces of circuit boards, and you had to eat a certain amount of "electrons" or something and get to the exit to finish the level. there was round balls falling down and stuff. really don't remember that much anyway. I'm trying to remember what the name of the game was... anyone remembers this?
     
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Sep 3, 2007, 12:07 AM
 
You could be confusing two games together. Chips Challenge would have been the game where you collect green circuit board pieces, and another oldy, Jezzball, could be the red balls you are thinking of. I may be wrong, but well, sound familiar?
     
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Sep 3, 2007, 03:21 PM
 
Found it!

It's name is infotron!
Thanks for the input though =)
     
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Sep 3, 2007, 08:45 PM
 
Nice! I downloaded that from the macintosh garden a year or two ago and played through it again in classic on my powerbook. A good boulderdash type game but/and very frustrating in places; with a little lag playing through classic it made some of the quick reaction moves really hard ><.

Compared to the first time around on an LCIII many years ago, this time I beat level 39, "Don't Drop" (which in fact crashed the LCIII after a while), and finally figured out 42, "High-Q"; but I still didn't make it through all 50 .. and then it became unreliable in classic for some reason and I gave up. So good luck to you! Replaying it drew me away from WoW for a bit, which is saying something .
     
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Sep 4, 2007, 10:04 AM
 
I actually got my old performa from the attic so I'm gonna play it on that one! Also found lemmings!
     
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Sep 5, 2007, 08:26 AM
 
Lemmings was a very cool series. I thought it was based on a lot of societal issues and show how if we work to together anything is possible.
     
   
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