Play it again, Sam
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Play it again, Sam originally is a (mis)quote from the 1942 film Casablanca. Later uses of this phrase are:
- A quote from the 1946 Marx Brothers' movie A Night in Casablanca
- A Broadway play by Woody Allen, and a 1972 film based upon the play.
- An international record label
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"Play it again Sam" was also the branding used by Superior Software to rerelease their old titles in compilations of four (with the exception of their earliest such compilations, The Superior Collection volumes 1–3). The original Play it again Sam featured four games which had each made No. 1 individually (Citadel, Thrust, Ravenskull, and Stryker's Run), but subsequent compilations increasingly featured one or more makeweight games of lesser quality, sometimes purchased from other software houses. The series eventually ran to approximately 18, though the latest ones were released well into the demise of the 8-bit scene and very few copies were sold.
It has been also the name of publication collections of the comic Robo-Hunter.