Rocky's Boots for the Apple II

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Published on October 15, 2011 2:46:40 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd-MAeVmDg

Game:

Rocky's Boots (1982)

Duration: 6:27

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Game description:

Rocky's Boots is a simple educational puzzle game where you can learn about logic circuits.

You control a nondescript square, moving it about several rooms. Each room contains basic electronic parts like AND, OR and NOT gates, flip-flops, delays and clocks. You can pick these up and combine them to build simple or complex circuits.

After a helpful tutorial, the task in the game is to build "kicking" machines: Objects of different colors move through an area and turn sensor outputs on and off. You now have to build a circuit that activates a kicking device which kicks the right objects out. When you do it just right, Rocky the raccoon dances a little jig to a joyful melody for you!

The game also features an editor where you can build you very own kicking puzzle.


Trivia:

Rocky's Boots won several awards, including Software of the Year awards from Learning magazine (1983), Parent's Choice magazine (1983), and Infoworld magazine (1982, runner-up). It also received the Gold Award (for selling 100,000 copies) from the Software Publishers Association.


What I think:

A nice little puzzle game. :)