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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Hardest Computer Game of All Time
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/robot_odyssey_the_hardest_computer_game_of_all_time.htmlMy first computer was an Apple IIe with 128KB of RAM, no hard drive, and a 5¼ inch floppy drive. One of the top educational games back then was Rockys Boots, an inventive game that taught the basics of formal logic to kids. I loved it when I was 6. Two years later, I got Robot Odyssey, which promised to expand on Rockys Boots by extending the formal logic to actual programming. The game devastated me. My brain could not comprehend how to solve its puzzles. I finally finished it13 years later, and not without some assistance.
Let me say: Any kid who completes this game while still a kid (I know only one, who also is one of the smartest programmers Ive ever met) is guaranteed a career as a software engineer. Hell, any adult who can complete this game should go into engineering. Robot Odyssey is the hardest damn educational game ever made. It is also a stunning technical achievement, and one of the most innovative games of the Apple IIe era.
<Snip> A good article for the older geeks out there.
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The Hardest Computer Game of All Time (Original Post)
LiberalArkie
Jan 2014
OP
Never played that one, but I think there are many games that could be called the hardest ever
Bjorn Against
Jan 2014
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)1. Harder than Oregon Trail? My herd always came down with anthrax & dysentery.
Never did make it to Oregon. Maybe one day....maybe one day.
Orrex
(63,225 posts)2. What about Hammurabi?
The drought always killed my wheat crop and depleted my grain stores.
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)3. Never played that one, but I think there are many games that could be called the hardest ever
Battletoads for the NES is probably the hardest I remember that did not allow you to change difficulty levels, there are a number of games that do allow you to change difficulty levels and some of them are nearly impossible on the hardest difficulty level.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)4. That game drove me crazy until I got into electronics in HS.
I got it from the local radio shack- the only source of software in our little town in umm.. '85?
I played it solid for 6 months, only getting to the second level.
Later in high school, when I took an intro to electronics course, I came back to it and almost finished it. (I think I just got frustrated.)
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)5. Carnage Heart was pretty brilliant as well. nt