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10 Responses to “ Attack of the Mutants ”

1. David Oakes
   April 3rd, 2007 at 10:16 am
   

   I owned the game, but I am not sure I ever played it. I did however play “Awful Green Things from Outer Space” and “Snits Revenge”.

   (”Yar’s Revenge”, too, but that was for the 2600, and thanks for making me feel old, Scott.)

2. Scott
   April 3rd, 2007 at 10:49 am
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   Snit’s Revenge was a favorite of mine too. I never really got into Awful Green Things, but my friend turned it into a roleplaying game (Advanced Awful Green Things from Outer Space) and we played that a couple of times. My favorite Tom Wham game was King of the Tabletop (later published as Kings and Things*). I did a post on Tom Wham a few years ago…

3. moon_custafer
   April 3rd, 2007 at 3:22 pm
   

   Wow. I never encountered Yar’s Revenge in person, but I once bought an LP of the
   soundtrack in the early ‘nineties at a “five LPS for a buck” sale. The tracks had titles
   like “Fly, Brave Yar Warriors.” Oh, and there was narration, too. How was it as an actual
   game (I usually prefer video games as a spectator sport, myself)?

4. Scott
   April 3rd, 2007 at 3:31 pm
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   Wikipedia has a good entry on Yar’s Revenge (and mentions the album as well). Wonder if anyone has the comic book I can scan in and post?

5. Marionette
   April 4th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
   

   If you are after “Yars’ Revenge - The Qotile Ultimatum” I can supply you with a scan of it.

6. Scott
   April 5th, 2007 at 9:05 am
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   Thanks for the offer Marionette, but I found that someone at Atari Age has already taken care of it.

7. jbrandt
   April 9th, 2007 at 10:02 am
   

   Oh, man, now I’m having Dragon Magazine flashbacks, too. I never saw the game, but I loved that ad, especially the scientist there with his little robot firing away down one hallway while the woman and the guy in khaki are trying to remind him that they’re at, you know, a junction, and there are zombies coming from the OTHER direction, TOO, doctor. Doctor? Put down the slide rule!

8. Jonathan Badger
   April 21st, 2007 at 9:44 pm
   

   I realize I’m a bit late, but I actually was googling for “Attack of the Mutants” because I was thinking of this very game. I sent away for the “introductory version” described here, although I believe I saw the ad in “Boys’ Life” (yes, I was once a member of that reactionary paramilitary organization called the Cub Scouts and subscribed to their official magazine).

   It was basically a SF wargame. Wargames, if you were too young to remember, were games where you moved little pieces of cardboard (called “counters”) around a board according to very complicated rules that were numbered rather like theorems in math textbooks (e.g. Rule 3.12.1 Attacking While Being Attacked). Anyway, in the game, one player played the mutants attacking the university, and the other played the defending professors and students (and their brave robots). As for the slide-rule using professor, remember that that was *already* campy in the 80s; nobody used a slide rule except for nostalgia after about 1975. The whole point of the game was to invoke 1950s SF movies.

9. Todd Williams
   May 25th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
   

   Interesting to see this brought up.. I love this game and made a playable module of it
   for the board game software called Vassal. http://www.vassalengine.org

10. Dave
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:30 am
    

    Anyone have a scan of the original 11″ x 17″ free demo version of Attack of the Mutants?

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