Crossroads (video game)
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Crossroads was a popular computer game from 1987 created by Steve Harter. The game consisted of a bird eyes view of a large maze filled with nine different single colored types of monsters as well as the player. Each monster has its own alliances and enemies which made the huge fray of monsters somewhat more manageable as they would kill each other. Along with these likes and hates, each monster had its own little bit of AI
. Monsters regularly explode when killed causing a spray of like colored pixels across the screen which is multiplied by monsters attacking each other. All together these elements made the game experience hectic, fast paced and explosive.
Crossroads was originally offered as hex formatted Commodore 64
machine code in COMPUTE!'s Gazette
. A subscriber could type the hex into a program named MLX that would save the machine code as an executable, as well as verify the typed in data line by line. Due to this distribution mechanism the game was mostly a cult classic
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. Monsters regularly explode when killed causing a spray of like colored pixels across the screen which is multiplied by monsters attacking each other. All together these elements made the game experience hectic, fast paced and explosive.
Crossroads was originally offered as hex formatted Commodore 64
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...
machine code in COMPUTE!'s Gazette
COMPUTE!'s Gazette
COMPUTE!'s Gazette was a computer magazine of the 1980s, directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers. Publishing its first issue in July 1983, the Gazette was a Commodore-only daughter magazine of the computer hobbyist magazine COMPUTE!....
. A subscriber could type the hex into a program named MLX that would save the machine code as an executable, as well as verify the typed in data line by line. Due to this distribution mechanism the game was mostly a cult classic