Talk:Robot Odyssey

message: I played this on my Tandy Color Computer 3 in the late 80's.
I think this game would have been a little better polished if released today.  The change in difficulty from the Third Level to the Fourth Level was just a HUGE leap.  I finally got stumped for good on level 5 - right past the room where you have to hit the buttons in a certain order (I used flip-flops and they eventually got it right, I think).
On the other hand, I learned quickly that there were ways around the earlier puzzles - setting the thrusters in robots with nothing but flip-flops and just letting them bounce randmomly until they reached their goal.  If you put an object in a robot's hand and then grabbed that object, you could shove the robot through the wall to active a touch-sensitive button.  This might have held up my skills in robot wiring, but I guess I get points for outside-the-box thinking.
I think if this game were rereleased and polished up today it would have a smoother learning curve.  Still, the game was fun and I spent hours tinkering with the logic gates and playing in the tutorials.--Pittsburghmuggle 21:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fun, but odd learning curve

message: :by wiring a synchronous circuit of logic gates...
I haven't played the game in a few years, but I'm fairly certain that the circuits weren't synchronous but instead
involved propogation delays (especially if you burned chips). I won't make the change in case my memory is faulty, but perhaps someone with a copy of the game should check to make sure.--Malcohol 09:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General discussion

message: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/robot_odyssey_the_hardest_computer_game_of_all_time.html Gamaliel (talk) 00:06, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just leaving this here to use as a source later 

message: Is this a good candidate?  Widget_Workshop
Also, a "see also" linking to an article on logic simulators would be nice for someone going further than the game allows.
73.3.211.0 (talk) 06:29, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other games? 

message: Why are the Easter Eggs removed?  For those that don't know, these are events hidden in the game, and now apparently in the history.  73.181.82.26 (talk) 06:42, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed content? 

message: The section on "similar games" lists a number of games that are said to be similar to, or spiritual successors of, Robot Odyssey that sound much more similar to or inspired by Robotwar. For example, Carnage Heart is about high-level programming, like Robotwar, rather than logic gates, like Robot Odyssey, and it's about sending your programmed bots into autonomous battle, like Robotwar, rather than riding them around a maze solving puzzles.
But I don't want to just change these all based on my opinions (even if my opinions are a lot better than yours ;). Are there actual sources saying that these games are similar to, or inspired by, or spiritual successors to, Robot Odyssey, as opposed to Robotwar or the various other programming games of the 80s? If not, this should probably just talk about the related TLC games and the modern clones and remakes, and everything else should be discussed on the page about programming games in general. --157.131.246.136 (talk) 20:39, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar Games? 

message: The second sentence says this game "has been described as the hardest computer game of all time."  This seems out of place for the lead paragraph, as it has been described that way by one person, hardly an accurate consensus about the game.  Digging into the source article further uncovers more problems: (1) the author did not do any systematic research to find the "hardest computer game"; he's merely reporting on the hardest game he happens to have played in his childhood; (2) the claim is in the headline, where hyperbole is de rigueur as clickbait.  The article makes it clear the game is incredibly challenging—an opinion shared by others the author spoke to—and the Wikipedia article should of course reflect that.  But "hardest of all time" is hyperbole unsuited for Wikipedia, and certainly for the lead paragraph. 2605:A601:AADC:2100:C2FA:4802:5984:FA49 (talk) 17:59, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead description