Grid Cycles from Personal Computer Games May 1984

[iamaran]

Grid Cycles from Personal Computer Games May 1984, pp. 136,137,139.

[leenew]

It's here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2538

Lee

[Flagg]

Thanks for posting, i remember typing this in thinking it was going to be like tron.

[Beebson]

It's here: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2538

Lee

Is Laser Cycles really the canonical version? As this is from 1985. Programmer has typed a REM message in program 1 of Grid Cycles saying it´s from 1983. And it´s published in 1984. Or is Laser Cycles it´s original name and it was modified before getting published in 1984?

[leenew]

Hi there,
The author, Shingo Sugiura was a master of recycling games and getting them published in various magazines.
Look how similar some of these are!
http://bbcmicro.co.uk/index.php?rt_M=&s ... ngo&sort=u

As for year of publication, I use the magazine date.
So, if a game was listed in the January 1984 edition of Acorn User, I will say it has a 1984 date.
This game could have REMs saying it was written in 1983, and in fact the magazine may have hit the shelves in late 1983, but I use the magazine date...
I don't believe there is a perfect way of doing this, so at least I try to be consistent!
As for "canonical" with magazine games... I don't really know.
Should the canonical game be the latest revision? or the earliest version? Who knows!
In the case of magazine type-in games I don't think the word "canonical" is that meaningful, but I don't have any control over that bit of the website...

Hope that helps!

Lee.