Really, really old obscure video game (PC)

The Game Room
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OK, here’s one for those expert Dopers who can always answer every obscure question in 5 minutes. I’m counting on you guys here.

In 1990-91, my brothers had a PC in their room for games and BBS chat (the only BBS in town, 1200 baud woo!). I think it was a PCjr. It had an amber screen and everything. Anyway, we constantly played this game–I think it was a sort of maze thing. I only remember the top screen, which had little things bouncing around. It played “Popcorn” all the time, and I think the game may have also been called Popcorn. It was not Lode Runner or Pengo. What was it?

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There was an Arkanoid/Breakout clone for the PC from that period called Popcorn. That probably is the game you’re thinking of.

(And 1990 is “really, really old”? Sigh…)

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Hey, thanks! That may well have been it; I’ll look around for it when I get back. OK, 1990 isn’t ‘really, really’ old; I just wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t recent at all and we weren’t talking about anything in color. I graduated from HS in 91, so I remember the good old days…

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Checking the Wiki article on Popcorn led me to Digger, a maze game that uses Popcorn as background music.