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I wanted to write my own twist on Asteroids.....so I wrote this game and named it Objectoids! I wrote this game in 1983 and it was eventually retitled Evil Eye and published in UpTime in 1987.

By the way, in this game you are an eyeball.

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Romero > UpTime's menu shell program........and Evil Eye wins best icon award by me!

Romero > Screenshot of the instruction page. I should capture the whole thing someday.

Romero > My quickly cobbled-together title screen when UpTime told me they wanted it. About 30 minutes of MousePaint later and whammo - it is born. It is analogous with the big shape on the left.

Romero > I was going crazy with brute force blasting of block shapes on the screen to see how many I could get and have smooth movement. Well, I'm sure I could have done much more than this with more optimization but this was pretty good for having just gotten a handle on 6502. Yes, the shapes self-erase themselves because they're drawn with a black border around them.

The very first name of the game was Meatball Attack because the entire game was going to be that one shape. I changed my mind and added a lot of different shapes, objects, to blast and renamed it Objectoids.