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RELEASED: 1983 PROGRAM: Rick Levine FORMAT: Cartridge SPEECH: Yes

Microsurgeon still ranks as one of the most unique and original game titles to come out of this era of video gaming. Not only was it extremely accurate to real life surgical situations, but it offered an almost endless amount of relayability. The game had success on the Mattel Intellivision console before designer Rick Levine ported the game over to the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer. The result is an even better overall version of an already outstanding and very playable game title. In Microsurgeon, you take control of an internal medical probe that you can move around throughout much of your patient's body. You'll have to use this probe to conduct surgeries, administer medications, and monitor the many facets of your patient's physical condition. The control in this TI-99/4A version is outstanding whether you choose to use the keyboard or joysticks. You can use the joysticks to move the probe around and administer medicines, but you'll still have to use the keyboard for other tasks since there's only one button on the joystick controllers. If you like your games to require more than just moving around and mashing a button over and over, Microsurgeon might prove to be a game that's right up your alley. Imagic game designer Rick Levine created the original Microsurgeon for the Intellivision console before porting it over to the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A home computer. He has stated in interviews that he was able to get a lot more detail in the graphics on the TI-99/4A computer and particularly enjoyed adding in the digitized speech as well. Here's what Rick has to say about his work on this TI-99/4A version of Microsurgeon: "The TI-99/4A had more graphics memory for storing the close-up screen and patient room. But most of all, it was great to be able to add the voice. My parents had passed away long before the game came out, but I know they would have been proud to hear "Paging Dr. Levine" in the game."

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