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On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:48:44 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote

jerk-o wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:47:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote

Actually there are games like this, except they have a lower focus in
the industry. These are mostly more geared at kids, starting with the
basic gates, AND NAND NOR XOR etc. They do get tougher, but it's like
regression in comparison to what went on the greatest video game of all
time, Robot Odyssey.

If you want to show the kids Robot Odyssey, you sould check out:
https://robotodyssey.online/

Very very neat. I started playing, saw right away something I had
forgotten: the batteries. This is a new experience.

The nice thing about it being a webpage is that you can play it on your
phone. When I was a kid, I ended up getting stuck on level 4. After I
started playing online, I finally managed to beat level 4.

Never beat level 5, but I'm not sure I ever will, since I "won" by
finally figuring out the thing that stumped me all those years ago.
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jerk-o wrote:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:48:44 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote

jerk-o wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:47:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote >>>> Actually there are games like this, except they have a lower focus in

the industry. These are mostly more geared at kids, starting with the
basic gates, AND NAND NOR XOR etc. They do get tougher, but it's like
regression in comparison to what went on the greatest video game of all >>>> time, Robot Odyssey.

If you want to show the kids Robot Odyssey, you sould check out:
https://robotodyssey.online/

Very very neat. I started playing, saw right away something I had
forgotten: the batteries. This is a new experience.

The nice thing about it being a webpage is that you can play it on your phone. When I was a kid, I ended up getting stuck on level 4. After I started playing online, I finally managed to beat level 4.

Never beat level 5, but I'm not sure I ever will, since I "won" by
finally figuring out the thing that stumped me all those years ago.

If you are not using chips I advise it. I'm going to make a go at it
with chips this time around & obeying the rules - I made a lot of
shortcut circuits to win the game that didn't really solve the problems
as stated.
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jerk-o <[email protected]> wrote at 09:56 this Monday (GMT):

On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:48:44 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote

jerk-o wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:47:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote >>>> Actually there are games like this, except they have a lower focus in

the industry. These are mostly more geared at kids, starting with the
basic gates, AND NAND NOR XOR etc. They do get tougher, but it's like
regression in comparison to what went on the greatest video game of all >>>> time, Robot Odyssey.

If you want to show the kids Robot Odyssey, you sould check out:
https://robotodyssey.online/

Very very neat. I started playing, saw right away something I had >>forgotten: the batteries. This is a new experience.

The nice thing about it being a webpage is that you can play it on your phone. When I was a kid, I ended up getting stuck on level 4. After I started playing online, I finally managed to beat level 4.

Never beat level 5, but I'm not sure I ever will, since I "won" by
finally figuring out the thing that stumped me all those years ago.

id say that it being a website only sometimes helps, since it doesnt
always have a supported game runner and its most likely not optimized
for mobile/might require a keyboard press
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jerk-o wrote:

On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:48:44 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote

jerk-o wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:47:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote >>>> Actually there are games like this, except they have a lower focus in

the industry. These are mostly more geared at kids, starting with the
basic gates, AND NAND NOR XOR etc. They do get tougher, but it's like
regression in comparison to what went on the greatest video game of all >>>> time, Robot Odyssey.

If you want to show the kids Robot Odyssey, you sould check out:
https://robotodyssey.online/

Very very neat. I started playing, saw right away something I had
forgotten: the batteries. This is a new experience.

The nice thing about it being a webpage is that you can play it on your phone. When I was a kid, I ended up getting stuck on level 4. After I started playing online, I finally managed to beat level 4.

Never beat level 5, but I'm not sure I ever will, since I "won" by
finally figuring out the thing that stumped me all those years ago.

Well I got to level 2, but in attempting to put together chips to grab
the subway token for myself, I found the soldering technique mildly
bulky. It could use several Quality of Life upgrades. The game is 41
years old, I discovered, as stated in the chip list. Also, working this
low level with AND, OR and XOR gates, I believe is too low level to give
much ground on robotics today. I don't think winning Robot Odyssey at
this point in your life is going to be the game changer that gets you
the robotics engineer at OpenAI earning $500,000 per year tomorrow. I'm inclined to go back to bitburner where I've got the task set before me
to school the stock market.

Thanks, though. It was pretty cool to pass level 1. This is a great game
to let your kids play if you have them.
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They can still see his headless body stalkin' through the night
And the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
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On Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:32:18 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 <[email protected]> said this thing:

jerk-o <[email protected]> wrote at 09:56 this Monday (GMT):

On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:48:44 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote >>>jerk-o wrote:

On Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:47:28 -0600, Lane W <[email protected]> wrote >>>>> Actually there are games like this, except they have a lower focus in >>>>> the industry. These are mostly more geared at kids, starting with the >>>>> basic gates, AND NAND NOR XOR etc. They do get tougher, but it's like >>>>> regression in comparison to what went on the greatest video game of all >>>>> time, Robot Odyssey.

If you want to show the kids Robot Odyssey, you sould check out:
https://robotodyssey.online/

Very very neat. I started playing, saw right away something I had >>>forgotten: the batteries. This is a new experience.

Heh. Reminds me of Origin Games' "Omega" (https://archive.org/details/msdos_Omega_1989), even if "Robot
Odyssey" apparently pre-dated "Omega" by a few years.

"Omega" was my first experience with a 'programming game', although at
the time I wasn't aware that is what it was teaching me. It came with
this /dense/ manual... not only remarkable by how thick and
information packed it was, but also because the binding was so tight
that the whole thing felt like a solid slab of wood. (available here: https://archive.org/details/omega-manual/Omega-Manual/mode/2up )

I loved that game. It wasn't particularly intuitive and in the end
there were probably better games of the genre that taught you better
lessons... but the novelty of the idea (to me at least) and the neat presentation (helped incredibly by the hardcopy documentation) really
helped sell the idea to me.

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