RobotWar

This 10 top list of computer games includes an honorable mention for RobotWar. I actually discovered RobotWar when my friend Steve Green created a version for X11. While we had a great time coding robots I think the most interesting things was figuring out how Silas Warner managed to program it on an Apple ][. For a good bit Steve struggled with performance issues on hardware several times more powerful than those early Apple systems.

My experience with RobotWar probably indirectly led to my changing majors to computer science, and it certainly affected my perception of the need to efficient coding to this day.