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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Batnum	Creative Computing (Author)	1976	BATTLE OF NUMBERS The game starts with an imaginary pile of objects, coins for example. You and your opponent (the computer) alternately remove objects from the pile. You specify in advance the minimum and maximum number of objects that can be taken on each turn. You also specify in advance how winning is defined: 1. To take the last object or 2. To avoid taking the last object. You may also determine whether you or the computer go first.
Bowling	Apple	1976	Source: https://archive.org/details/bowling.qb64*The Alley is a text based bowling game. All the players have to do is type "roll" to roll the ball. The outcome is completely random. The game detects spares, strikes, and gutter balls.*[media=youtube]rlPjBw7sJTw[/media]
GoMoko	Creative Computing	1976	BASIC*[media=youtube]6ANyeCQem80[/media]*GO-MOKO is a traditional game of the Orient. It is played by two people on a board of intersecting lines (19 left-to-right lines, 19 t op -to -bottom lines , 361 intersections in all). Players take turns. During his turn, a player may cover one intersection with a marker; (one player uses white markers; the other player uses black markers). The object of the game is to get five adjacent markers in a row, horizontally, vertically or along either diagonal. Unfortunately, this program does not make the computer a very good player. It does not know when you are about to win or even who has won. But some of its moves may surprise you.
Hi-Lo	Creative Computing	1976	Hi-Lo is a guessing game. There's a amount of money in the jackpot, which is somewhere between 1 and 100. The player gets 6 guesses in which the number must be guessed or the game ends. After each guess the player learns if his guess was high or low.***[media=youtube]0YziVBYe_Uo[/media]
Hurkle	Creative Computing	1976	Hurkle? A Hurkle is a happy beast and lives in another galaxy on a planet named Lirht that has three moons. Hurkle are favorite pets of the Gwik, the dominant race of Lirht and... well, to find out more, read "The Hurkle is a Happy Beast" in the book A WAY HOME by Theodore Sturgeon published by Pyramid. In this program a shy hurkle is hiding on a 10 by 10 grid. Homebase is point 0,0 in the Southwest corner. Your guess as to the gridpoint where the hurkle is hiding should be a pair of whole numbers, separated by a comma. After each try, the computer will tell you the approximate direction to go look for the Hurkle. You get five guesses to find him.
Matches	The Digital Group (Author)	1976	Zilog Z80 Intel 8080*In Matches the computer challenges the player in a simple two-player strategy game. There's a pile of matches (the player decides the size) and each turn the player and computer may take one, two or three matches from the pile. The player to take the last match loses.*[media=youtube]vKVK0K3e07E[/media]
Reverse	Creative Computing	1976	The game of REVERSE requires you to arrange a list of numbers in numerical order from left to right. To move, you tell the computer how many numbers (counting from the left) to reverse. For example, if the current list is: 2 3 4 5 1 6 7 8 9 and you reverse 4, the result will be: 5 4 3 2 1 6 7 8 9 Now if you reverse 5, you win!
Word	Creative Computing	1976	Source: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/101_BASIC_Computer_Games_Mar75.pdf*[media=youtube]zk1CqX6FwEw[/media]*WORD is similar to Hangman in that the player must guess a word with clues as to letter position furnished by the computer. However, instead of guessing one letter at a time, in WORD, you guess an entire word (or group of 5 letters, such as ABCDE) . The computer will tell you if any letters in your word are in the mystery word and if any of them are in the correct position. Armed with these clues, you go on guessing until you get the word or, if you can't get it, input a n ?" and the computer will tell you the mystery word.

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