It was like the arcade game Berzerk, only in that you had to fight robots in a maze.
The game was timed. You made 3 moves, then the robots moved. You could move in 1 of 8 directions, fire a laser, fire a rapid-fire laser, or fire a missile: those were all the choices you had.
The robots fired at you. One kind fired lasers back, which harmed your armor. Another fired missiles which killed you instantly and harmed the walls of the maze. A third had a large radius of explosion, which would kill you if it exploded and you were too close.
The game had about 10 levels. The goal was to make it out another exit. I never made it past around level 5.
I had thought this game was called Mission Escape. Perhaps it is not. There is a game called Mission Escape in which you rescue people from the moon. I am not interested in this game.
But I would be very interested, and very grateful, if you can remember the game I am describing and tell me how I might play it again. I played it in the early 1980s on my Apple II.
Here's what I recall :
There was an Apple II game called Thief, which was similar to
the old arcade game called Bezerk, where you have to run through rooms and kill off robots. But you had only one weapon.
Another robot game on Apple II with many levels was called Power Bots, where you could choose from several weapons.
Oh and there's also the popular robot game which was more strategy-like by Silas Warner, RobotWar. Silas Warner worked for Muse Software and was the author of Castle Wolfenstein and Beyond Castle Wolfenstein back in the 1980s.
The game was graphically unsophisticated, at about the same level as Nethack or Rogue. These are not the game.
It is very kind of you to take the trouble to answer my question, though.
Here's another robot game which fits fairly well your description, it's called Mission Omega. In this game you created several robots with weapons up to 500 kg and remotely program them through a maze to find some keys for reactors. The game was timed and you had one hour to do it. Graphics were very simple. The game was published in 1986 by Incentive Software, but I don't think it was released for the Apple II, only for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC.
For more info on Mission Omega and screenshots, click here.
although I am most grateful for your effort and time.
I think you are 100% correct on the name. I rememebr it playing exactly like you said as well.
Unfortunately I can't find it out there any where either. If you ever figure out a way to play it please let me know.
Thanks