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I loved Raster Blaster as a kid, and for its time it was an amazing piece of programming for the Apple ][. Budge is a personal inspiration of mine. Although I
by joezydeco 11y ago
I loved Raster Blaster as a kid, and for its time it was an amazing piece of programming for the Apple ][. Budge is a personal inspiration of mine.
Although I kind of wish people would acknowledge that Raster Blaster's playfield design was directly copied from Firepower, a Williams Electronics game from 1980 designed by Steve Ritchie and Eugene Jarvis.
http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=856&picno=19164 http://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=856&picno=19164
- sanj 11y agoThanks for pointing this out -- I never realized it! I have an original Firepower machine in my basement. This bit of trivia is enough to get me to make it functional again.