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Krazy Kobra

I wrote Krazy Kobra in 1983 because I had loved Snake Byte (Chuck Sommerville, 1981) so much that I wanted to write my own clone and have more levels in it. Snake Byte had 28 levels so I made 50 in Krazy Kobra. The game is a pretty good version of the classic Snake game.

UpTime wanted to publish it in 1987 so I said, "Hell yeah! Gimme $250!"
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  • The cover of the issue. They were very big sleeves that the disks were packaged into. I had to scan this thing 4 times it's so big.

    The cover of the issue. They were very big sleeves that the disks were packaged into. I had to scan this thing 4 times it's so big.

  • The back cover. Notice the Applied Engineering ad. Most people were afraid to touch their interface cards but these cartoon bozos have no qualms about possibly blowing up this $130 card. Make sure you have an iron will or you won't survive Krazy Kobra!

    The back cover. Notice the Applied Engineering ad. Most people were afraid to touch their interface cards but these cartoon bozos have no qualms about possibly blowing up this $130 card. Make sure you have an iron will or you won't survive Krazy Kobra!

  • The famous UpTime menu shell program. Shittiest icon award goes to Krazy Kobra - thanks guys!

    The famous UpTime menu shell program. Shittiest icon award goes to Krazy Kobra - thanks guys!

  • This cobra is so krraaaazy that it's actually a BABY which is why you're constantly collecting baby milk bottles! WHUH?? Yeah, welcome to the 80's, pal. So Rhaluka just said the "snake" looks like a caterpillar because it's segmented (and a cobra isn't(!!)). So I should have named it Krazy Katerpillar. I'M SO DUMB!!!

    This cobra is so krraaaazy that it's actually a BABY which is why you're constantly collecting baby milk bottles! WHUH?? Yeah, welcome to the 80's, pal. So Rhaluka just said the "snake" looks like a caterpillar because it's segmented (and a cobra isn't(!!)). So I should have named it Krazy Katerpillar. I'M SO DUMB!!!

  • My menu/startup screen. The cobra has one of those El Dolto beanies on its head - the kind with a propeller on it. Why? Probably because I'm mentally wearing one constantly.

    My menu/startup screen. The cobra has one of those El Dolto beanies on its head - the kind with a propeller on it. Why? Probably because I'm mentally wearing one constantly.

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  • The instructions which I didn't write.

    The instructions which I didn't write.

  • Here's the page of notes I wrote while I was planning the hacks I had to do to the game to make it conform to UpTime's menu shell. This was 4 years after I wrote the game and lost the source code. So I had to manually hack the machine code.

    Here's the page of notes I wrote while I was planning the hacks I had to do to the game to make it conform to UpTime's menu shell. This was 4 years after I wrote the game and lost the source code. So I had to manually hack the machine code.

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