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The history of Microsoft BOA (Blog post)

Almost unknown, BOA is a nice little game for MS-DOS created in 1989 by Dean Ballard for Microsoft. It's an arcade game similar to Snake, besides the fact that you are playing a rat trying to avoid being eaten by the snake!   The oddest thing about this game lies in its distribution model: it was solely available through the driver disk of a mouse created by Microsoft, the "Contour Mouse", also known as "Dove Bar." Due to the technological limitations of the era, [...]

Keywords : microsoft boa, history, mouse, pix'n love

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Microsoft BOA (Broacasting our studies)

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DOS-era Microsoft Boa gets a fan tribute game, original creator reacts (Broacasting our studies)

An article from the website IndieGames.com about the game Moreia, created by Dr.Ludos.

Keywords : indie game, news

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Moreia (Videogame)

Moreia is a quick mouse-based dexterity game. You are being chased by a giant moray eel, and you must escape it for as long as possible, while avoiding to hit the walls around the screen. You can think of this game as a "Snake", except that this time you are not controlling the snake but a pill that really don't want to be eaten!Use the mouse to move the pill around the screen. Don't touch the moray eel or the walls. You'll earn 1 point for each "step" made by the moray eel, [...]

Keywords : mouse, dexterity, snake, tribute

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