Editing RobotWar (section)

==Reception==
Harry White reviewed ''RobotWar'' in ''[[The Space Gamer]]'' No. 45.<ref name="SG">{{cite journal|last=White |first=Harry |date=November 1981 |title=Featured Review: RobotWar|journal=[[The Space Gamer]]|publisher=[[Steve Jackson Games]]|issue=45|pages=4}}</ref> White commented that "''RobotWar'' is worth [...] the price. And if you don't have an Apple, but do own some other brand of personal computer, just wait - there'll be a similar game for you soon. It has to happen."<ref name="SG"/>

In its first issue ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' praised ''RobotWar''{{'}}s language as easy to learn,<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Edmunds
  | first = William
  | title = RobotWar: A wargame for all programmers
  | magazine = [[Computer Gaming World]]
  | pages = 13–17
  | date = November–December 1981
  }}</ref> and for several years hosted contests for robot programs.<ref name="brooks199405">{{Cite magazine
 |last=Brooks
 |first=M. Evan
 |date=May 1994
 |title=Never Trust A Gazfluvian Flingschnogger!
 |url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1994&pub=2&id=118 
 |magazine=Computer Gaming World
 |pages=42–58}}</ref> In 1996, the magazine named it the 85th best game ever.<ref name="cgw199611best">{{cite magazine | url=http://www.cgwmuseum.org/galleries/index.php?year=1996&pub=2&id=148 | title=150 Best Games of All Time | magazine=Computer Gaming World | date=November 1996 | access-date=25 March 2016 | pages=64–80}}</ref> ''[[Byte (magazine)|BYTE]]'' also praised Battle Language and its potential for teaching programming, as well as the sophisticated editor and debugger, but noted that the language's slow performance caused robots to [[race condition|sometimes behave in unexpected ways]].<ref name="feigel198112">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1981-12/1981_12_BYTE_06-12_Computer_Games#page/n25/mode/2up | title=Robotwar | work=BYTE | date=December 1981 | access-date=19 October 2013 | author=Feigel, Craig | pages=24}}</ref>

In a 2020 interview, [[Stewart Cheifet]], the host and producer of ''[[Computer Chronicles]]'' told ZDNET that RobotWar was one of his favorite games, telling them "you didn't fight and shoot, you programmed your robot, it was a battle between the software, the robot you designed, and the robot the other guy designed,...it was brilliant."<ref>{{Citation |title=Looking back: Famous tech breakthroughs and failures | date=4 November 2020 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJmMzHmKSzQ |access-date=2023-07-22 |language=en}}</ref>