Back in the day I really enjoyed RoboWar on the macintosh: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3842-robowar https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3842-robowar I'

Back in the day I really enjoyed RoboWar on the macintosh: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3842-robowar https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3842-robowar I've seen other robot fighting games, but I always liked the low-level-programming aspect of Robowar. It used a stack-based machine language with IO via register accesses, and it had some instructions for complex functions like trigonometry, which still only took a single cycle, so it was easy to reason about performance. I guess what I liked about it was that you had to be clever, and it gave you the right tools to be clever. Unfortunately, while RoboWar is a lot of fun, after many tournaments it is somewhat played out. Just about every paradigm and technique has been extensively tested, so it's hard to come up with a surprising or exciting new idea. A successor that stuck to the simple low level machine programming concept but introduced new concepts would help.