DeTomaso Mailing List: October 98, Message #0

Curt, you are the man.  Are you single?  

And boy, do I remember those 4 color games.  I liked Rear Guard myself on
the Apple and Parsec for the TI99-4A.

Dave "I have a Timex Sinclair" D

At 04:53 PM 9/30/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Kirby wrote:
>Well, I had some good guesses, but it's apparent that nobody except Paul 
>and I played an excellent computer game that ran on the Apple II and the 
>Atari 800. Let's see....  circa 1982 or so? Help me here, Paul... I 
>remember playing it on my Atari in the Shetlands in 1983.
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>It's was probably one of the premiere games at the time in terms of 
>graphics (they used a technique called artifacting to gain what looked like 
>more resolution than the computer was capable of), sound and overall 
>'playability'. It's one of those multi-level games with your little Drol 
>(sort of a robot) is the hero you control and there's lots of meanies like 
>witchdoctors and other undesireables which come bouncing out and try to 
>kill your little Drol as you move through the levels.
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>Seems Paul used to play it alot and his friends nicknamed him Drol. Hence 
>the license plate and the email name. Have I got that right, Paul?
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>How about this for digging up trivia...
>http://www.digitalthunder.com/misc/drol.jpg
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>Curt T-Man
>1TO9 MPG
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