Operation Sabotage
Operation Sabotage is a text adventure game by Ray Sato for the TRS-80 and published by SoftSide Magazine in 1982. It was ported by Rich Bouchard to the Atari 8-bit computers and translated for Apple II by Ron Shaker and later the IBM PC by Fred Condo & Kerry Shetline. The game was republished in The Best of SoftSide (1983), which also included the program on an accompanying 5¼-inch floppy disk.
Operation Sabotage
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- 1982
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- Operation Sabotage was published by SoftSide Magazine.
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- interactive fiction
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Operation Sabotage is a text adventure game by Ray Sato for the TRS-80 and published by SoftSide Magazine in 1982. It was ported by Rich Bouchard to the Atari 8-bit computers and translated for Apple II by Ron Shaker and later the IBM PC by Fred Condo & Kerry Shetline. The game was republished in The Best of SoftSide (1983), which also included the program on an accompanying 5¼-inch floppy disk.
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• Programmer — Ray Sato (TRS-80) Rich Bouchard (Atari) Ron Shaker (Apple II) Fred Condo & Kerry Shetline (IBM PC) • Publisher — SoftSide • Designer — Ray Sato • Released — 1982 • Genre — Interactive fiction • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — TRS-80, Atari 8-bit, Apple II, IBM PC
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- 1.Operation: Sabotage by Ray Sato. SoftSide. 5. 11. 29. 1982.
- 2.Condo, Fred. Operation: Sabotage by Ray Sato. SoftSide. 6. 3. 40. 1983.
- 3.SoftSide Publications, Inc. The Best of SoftSide. 1983.
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Operation Sabotage is associated with United States. Classed in the genre interactive fiction. Recorded as published in 1982. Issued for TRS-80 Model I. Operation Sabotage was published by SoftSide Magazine.
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