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December 10, 2022
When I was a kid, my family had a Commodore 64 computer.
Most of our games came from the store. Others we typed in from magazines. But for as long as I remember (we got the computer when I was two), we had this special hand-labeled disk.
When you ran the special disk, a menu of games appeared in yellow text:
Donkey Kong
Choplifter
Dig Dug
...
I can't remember the full list. I think number seven was Pacman. Or was it Defender?
At the bottom was a prompt. (Was it in French? The only French text on the disk.) You type a number, wait on a yellow loading screen, and then the game appears.
I loved that disk. We got rid of all our C64 disks years ago, but I wish I could see that full list again.
I do remember game number ten on my special disk: Robotron.
This game always stood out, because it never worked. Whenever I selected number ten, the disk would hang on that yellow loading screen for eternity. I tried many, many times.
And so Robotron gained a mythical status throughout my childhood. What was it like? I imagined so many different things.
With nothing concrete to attach to, the name grew more and more evocative over time: Robotron.
But eventually we got a PC, and I stopped using the special disk. The mystery of Robotron receded into my childhood memories and waited.
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