''RoboSport'' is a

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. It was created by Edward Kilham and developed and published by Maxis. The player creates teams of robots and maneuvers them around a board to map out one "turn" of movement. The other players and AI do the same and then all movement is played out simultaneously. The robots are equipped with different weapons, including

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s, and so on. The game supports multiple modes such as capture the flag and a "hostage" game. Maxis developed this game for DOS, Macintosh and Windows 3.''x''. In

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, it was released for the

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Reception

The game was reviewed in 1991 in ''

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'' #172 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. ''

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'' praised the Windows version of ''RoboSport'' for its excellent user interface, ease of programming, and quick play. The magazine concluded that it was "at least three excellent games crammed into one nearly seamless sport". A later article reported that the game depicted

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and

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better "than many computer wargames dedicated to the subject". A 1994 survey in the magazine of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game three-plus stars out of five. Alfred Giovetti, writing for '' Compute!'', praised the game for the flexibility of programming computer robots that would then fight providing an interesting outcome.

Reviews

* '' Amiga Format'' (Nov, 1992) * '' CU Amiga'' (Feb, 1993) * ''Australian Commodore and Amiga Review'' (Jan, 1993) * '' The One'' Amiga (Jan, 1993) * ''

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'' (Aug, 1992) * ''

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'' (Jan, 1993) * ''Amiga Joker'' (Dec, 1992) * ''Amiga Magazine'' (May, 1993)

References

External links

* 1991 video games Amiga games Classic Mac OS games Maxis games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Turn-based tactics video games {{strategy-videogame-stub