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   gamemaster to Ivan C.   
   Re: Trying to remember the name of this    
   10 Jan 16 10:53:08   
   
   On 1/8/2016 9:25 AM, Ivan C. wrote:   
   > On 2016-01-08, gamemaster  wrote:   
   >> Hello all,   
   >> I am trying to remember the game, but it is evading me.  It was a top   
   >> down type game similar to Pacman but the maze structure was a lot   
   >> smaller since all the characters were much bigger.  The players   
   >> character was a guy in a space suit with a laser blaster (shot red   
   >> beams).  You could move up down left or right and when you did your   
   >> character turned facing the blaster in that direction.  The monsters   
   >   
   > This gave me a clue it could be Wizard of Wor   
   > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWFGZ8Gj1Ws   
      
   That is DARN close!  It made me think I played a different version of   
   it.  As there wasn't any mention of dungeons and the sounds were better   
   (or at least I liked the shooting and death sounds better).  Game play   
   was very close, but the character's legs didn't move.  But with this   
   info in hand I went digging and found something very interesting   
   http://c64preservation.com/ultimax apparently it was another version  I   
   had the last one they showed   
   http://c64preservation.com/pics/wizard02p.png This version also didn't   
   show Bally/Midway in the copyright which I am fairly sure I would have   
   remembered.  It also didn't give the name "Wiard of Wor" in the title   
   that I can recall and it had some odd gibberish name in the disk directory.   
      
   Digging some more I found:   
   https://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/Wizard_of_Wor  should have went there   
   first I guess lol.   
      
   Thanks everyone for the help.  Now I need to find the original, real   
   version as well considering I never played that one. :)   
      
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