Have you played… Robocode?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

Robocode is a coding game about telling your little robot exactly how to move, dodge, aim, shoot, and assess its situation so that it can destroy all opposing robots in the arena. It’s also a game I’ve never played before in my life.

You know what I did play though? Robot Battle. Robot Battle is the 1992 coding game by Brad Schick that inspired the creation of Robocode by Mathew A. Nelson about a decade later. I consider it an absolute travesty that Robot Battle no longer seems to exist anywhere on the interwebs. But it seems to me that Robocode is almost identical, so what the hey. At least with Robocode I can actually put up a header image.

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