Scout Search

Here's the cover of the June 1984 inCider magazine where my first published game appeared - Scout Search. You can tell how long ago 1984 was - there's an Ultima III character editor and an ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:04:15 -0700

Romero
Here's the cover of the June 1984 inCider magazine where my first published game appeared - Scout Search. You can tell how long ago 1984 was - there's an Ultima III character editor and an ...

Here's the Table of Contents of the issue. A quick look at it will reveal just how boring most of the old magazines were to normal people - but geeks like me ate em up! So yeah, my first pu ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:04:16 -0700

Romero
Here's the Table of Contents of the issue. A quick look at it will reveal just how boring most of the old magazines were to normal people - but geeks like me ate em up! So yeah, my first pu ...

This is a short article - it's only 2 pages. I laughed when I read this again because I can't believe I wrote "when I wrote this game I didn't know how to make a shape editor" LOLZ! Hilari ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:04:17 -0700

Romero
This is a short article - it's only 2 pages. I laughed when I read this again because I can't believe I wrote "when I wrote this game I didn't know how to make a shape editor" LOLZ! Hilari ...

Here's the entire tiny game. The first half is in BASIC, the second half is in 6502 machine language and is really the actual game code. Back then, you could only make fast games if they w ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:04:17 -0700

Romero
Here's the entire tiny game. The first half is in BASIC, the second half is in 6502 machine language and is really the actual game code. Back then, you could only make fast games if they w ...

Here's the notice inCider sent me when they got Scout Search in the mail. I sent them 5 adventure games too. Text adventures, mind you. Two of those adventures were The Unknown and Mystery ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:43:31 -0700

Romero
Here's the notice inCider sent me when they got Scout Search in the mail. I sent them 5 adventure games too. Text adventures, mind you. Two of those adventures were The Unknown and Mystery ...

I actually wrote Scout Search in 1983 soon after learning 6502 assembler. It was originally titled Ricochet but I came up with a little story and changed the name. You can see a little of ...

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:43:31 -0700

Romero
I actually wrote Scout Search in 1983 soon after learning 6502 assembler. It was originally titled Ricochet but I came up with a little story and changed the name. You can see a little of ...

This is the instruction screen and first thing you see before jumping into the game. As you can see, the game was made in 1983.

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:43:38 -0700

Romero
This is the instruction screen and first thing you see before jumping into the game. As you can see, the game was made in 1983.

Here's the 3rd level of the game and several scouts have been demolished.AS THEY SHOULD BE!

nobody@smugmug.com (Romero) — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:43:42 -0700

Romero
Here's the 3rd level of the game and several scouts have been demolished.AS THEY SHOULD BE!