For the username I just used the escape key, and wrote down the level codes. Turns out the highest level’s code was PMO. I remembered this as “escape from PMO”

That was when I was in my early teens, if then. I had no idea how prescient “escape from PMO” would be as, years later, in order to just get ‘er dun, I found myself having to invent ways to appease, get around, or ignore an insidious department of “best practice” people within Project Management Office of my employer!

Very funny story, John, and I’m not surprised somehow to see that you played and were influenced by one of my favorite games of all time.

I also tried to find Marc a publisher for his Mac OS version of The Bilestoad in the mid nineties, unfortunately without any luck … it was great, but the market had become pretty jaded to the tech level used by the game (in large part due to Quake, of course).

PS: Space Warrior had some really great copy protection in it, including loading the boot code into the video memory space, and in the final stage of protection a note that read something like “If you’ve gotten this far, congratulations!”. Not sure if Marc would consider it so, but the actual code was very object oriented, between this and Apple’s file utility program I learned and had started writing object oriented code before I even know the term (mid-80s)…in 6502 assembler.

-lane

Other than the blood and the music, the feature I remember the most was the time-slicing competitive mode where the game took turns displaying you and then your opponent. You had to remember what you were doing / look at the minimap on the side of the screen.

And then, panning over to display both combatants at the same time when you got close (and the tension ramping up when the music stopped).

My brother and I played it a ton. Pretty damn awesome.