Most people must have gotten it from CD-Action, which was THE monthly gaming magazine at the time. Each copy came with a DVD containing a few demos of upcoming games and 1-2 full games, most of them titles a few years old. Colobot made an appearance sometime in the mid-2000s.

Yep, that's how I played it. Loved it as a kid. Also I'm reasonably certain it was bundled with "Komputer Świat" not CD-Action since it was more of an "educational" game, CD-Action did more "mature" releases. But I might be wrong.

Yep, that's how I got it.

Some of my Polish programmer friends speak fondly of it, but being Polish myself, I've never heard of it until they told me about it.

Played it as a teenager - some of my first lines of code were laid in its code editor.

I remember that in the Polish paper manual the language was described as being Java like, though.

It's an old game. I tried it 20 years ago or so. I'm French, so it was not totally unknown outside of Poland.

I used to play it back in around 2002. I'm in New Zealand. I heard about it from a friend telling a friend.

Great game.