Hi,
Could anyone confirm the number of games using the Jawbreaker name? I counted:
- the original version with the Pac-Man-style maze
- the rewritten version after Atari sued Sierra
- another version with yet another maze
- Jawbreaker II (similar to the VCS game)
- Jawbreaker Construction Set (was this ever for sale?).
Is this correct? I'm not sure about the third one...
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I don't know what came out on disk or cassette, but I have a Jawbreaker II cart. It is the 2600 version ported by "Chuckles" (Charles Bueche). The confusion comes from the fact that the red cart label says "Jawbreaker" while the box and instructions correctly say JB II. There is also a black label cart by Doug Whitaker. IIRC, Nir Dary has one. That one does say JB II on the label, I believe. Undoubtedly, it was a post lawsuit version with different graphics.
Nir Dary, are you there?
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FastRobPlus
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I have no insight on special versions or prototypes of Jawbreaker aside from what's in the book "Hackers".
I do have a (semi) interesting story. When I was really young, my father was a Boeing engineer and he took me to the Boeing tech fair, which was a weekend event where employees showed off thier tech-related hobbies and projects.
There were a lot of Apple II and a few Atari 800 computers there. This would have been 1981 or 82. One of the guys was showing a near complete perfect conversion of Pac-Man he claimed to be working on. Other Atari/Apple programmers aked him specific questions about it, but he didn't come across as knoledgable about how it worked.
I've wondered ever since if this was the famous John Harris version that leaked and spread everywhere and maybe this guy was just trying to nab attention.
I do have a (semi) interesting story. When I was really young, my father was a Boeing engineer and he took me to the Boeing tech fair, which was a weekend event where employees showed off thier tech-related hobbies and projects.
There were a lot of Apple II and a few Atari 800 computers there. This would have been 1981 or 82. One of the guys was showing a near complete perfect conversion of Pac-Man he claimed to be working on. Other Atari/Apple programmers aked him specific questions about it, but he didn't come across as knoledgable about how it worked.
I've wondered ever since if this was the famous John Harris version that leaked and spread everywhere and maybe this guy was just trying to nab attention.
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PingvinBlueJeans
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The black label cart is the C64 version of Jawbreaker II by Doug Whittaker. If you have an Atari version with that label, it's a mistake.Callipygous wrote:There is also a black label cart by Doug Whitaker. IIRC, Nir Dary has one. That one does say JB II on the label, I believe. Undoubtedly, it was a post lawsuit version with different graphics.