At 11:11 AM 6/22/98 -0700, you wrote:
 >Robotron is also a video game ca. 1981-2 (Williams,
iirc) that was 
[...]
 >each other.  Other, similar games included Sinistar
(no relation, and don't
>even go there) and one whose name I forgot that had to do with spiders and 
 What do you mean, there's no relation? They are
both William's titles...and 
Whups...  Sorry.  I occassionally get sensitive about my last name, and
when I was younger, I was the butt of a lot of jokes centered around my
name and that game.  (Sinasohn, Sinistar.)
 Sinistar is the addition of 2 SRAMs, a different
interface board (for dual
joysticks), blitter clipper circuit and an additional sound board for 
Robotron also had dual joysticks, so perhaps that was the same on both games?
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