1993 Tom Larrow
Platform: PC DOS
A very short entry for a title that was released in a very limited form, but is currently missing in action and yet to be preserved (we think!). Mind Bender (or Mindbender) was a Mastermind clone written by Tom Larrow, and was submitted to BBS sites in 1993.
It was also included in some Shareware compilations back in the day, as one of the registrations made for the game was from a disk purchased at a mall kiosk. It seems that thanks to DOS Games, it was distributed on a Software of the Month Club CD in July 1994, so could anyone still have a copy of that?
The game itself was written in GW Basic, and was likely compiled into an EXE that was around 40-50Kb in size. Our searches at the time have only found a Windows version of the game by someone else. Within this particular game is Tom’s full name, and an address of Norwalk, OH where he lived at the time as a nag screen.
Do you have a copy of Tom’s game at all? And if so, can you help us re-unite him with his long lost game?
With thanks to Marc Schulder for highlighting, DOS Games for helping with the search and Tom Larrow for further information.