The Bilestoad

published by Datamost in 1982, developed by Datamost / Mangrove Earthshoe, running on Apple II E

type: action/reflex
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player, shared-screen

languages: eng

4.5/5

Personal review

Pretty frequently I see the recurring threads on software piracy on various newsgroups. People really believe that there is no impact from their copying software. Well, there is an impact. I couldn't support myself by writing computer games, so "The Bilestoad" was the last game I did.

(Marc Goodman) - # 2021-02-24 20:27:48

Technical specs

display: raster

Editor note

Marc Goodman thought it would be completely unrealistic to assume that people would be speaking 20th century English in the distant future. Beil means axe and tod means death, in German. In his setting, the language of the future borrowed from German, English and possible others. Also, his language of the future uses the letter s to make compound words. Finally, pronunciation has changed. Beil+s+tod = Bilestoad.