Bolo

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Bolo (tank)

A Bolo is a fictional type of artificially intelligent superheavy tank. They were first imagined by Keith Laumer in the short story "Combat Unit" in 1960. They have since been featured in science fiction novels and short story anthologies by him and others. While stories are partly set in the near future, most take place in the 27th to 33th century or even later. The fictional universe of Bolo stories is populated by alien races, which forced humanity and human colonists on distant planets to defend themselves with a large military.

Description

Bolos as envisioned by Laumer in his future history Military SF are described as automated superheavy tanks. What they have in common—besides enormous firepower—is:

Bolo (Breakout clone)

Bolo is a computer game originally for the Atari ST using the high resolution monochrome monitor. The game is considered a Breakout clone.

Bolo builds on the concept of Breakout, introducing numerous additions such as gravity, exploding bricks, and tunneling to make the game more interesting and challenging. Written in the late 1980s by Meinolf Schneider, better remembered for his Oxyd games, Bolo was quite popular with Atari ST users in Germany at the time. It was later remade for Macintosh and MS-DOS.

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