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Re: What difficultly level do you play one?

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Zersterer wrote:
> JAB wrote:
>> On 14/07/2024 19:15, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> How do we loop this all back to video games? Which, you know, is the
>>> whole point of this newsgroup? 😜
>>
>> Tricky one. Can you think of any game that wasn't played how the 
>> designers imagined it. Off the top of my head I've come up with none.
> 
> I solved Robot Odyssey like that.  Here's an excerpt from the wikipedia 
> review:
> 
> The robots can also be wired up to chips, which provide a convenient and 
> reproducible way to program the robots. Various pre-programmed chips are 
> scattered throughout the city and range from complex circuits such as a 
> wall-hugging chip which can be used to navigate through mazes and 
> corridors (one of which is wired to a robot at the beginning) to clocks 
> and counters. The player must find out how these chips work themselves, 
> as the only information about each chip is a short, and sometimes 
> cryptic, description. Additionally, there are predesigned chip files 
> stored on the various disks containing the game that can be loaded into 
> the in-game chips. The available chips stored in this fashion vary 
> depending on the port or version used.
> 
> The Innovation Lab can be used to test out circuit designs in the robots 
> or create new chips. Chips created in the lab can then be loaded into 
> and used in the main game. Loading a chip in the main game will erase 
> the previous programming stored in the chip.
> 
> Although the game is recommended for ages 10 and up, it can prove to be 
> quite challenging even for adults. In terms of educational value, the 
> game teaches the basic concepts of electrical engineering and digital 
> logic in general.
>     * * *
> LOL, it used to say it was the hardezt game in existence.  It's 
> educational!  I solved it at age 12.
> 
> Towards the end, it would have puzzle descriptions like,  "Solve the 
> NAND double flip flop with gravy delight and NOT the signal coming from 
> the bandsman."  I'd do something that would sample out to the same thing 
> when checked, but much simpler otherwise.

Put simply, although the instructions were extremely complicated, the 
tests were weak.  Sucks for everybody who didn't even try.

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