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name	publisher(developer)	year	tags	description
23 Matches	Tandy	1978	commercial keyboard license-proprietary logicpuzzle mp-versus naturalistic nim nplayers perfectinformation sourcecodeavailable traditional trs80model1 typein	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.
Aardvark	Taylor	1978	aardvarks ants basic cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Air Flight Simulation	Instant Software	1979	aerodyne aeroplane cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Air Traffic Controller	Creative Computing Software	1979	cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic trs80model1
Airmail Pilot	Instant Software	1979	1920s 20thcentury 2ndmillennium aerodyne aeroplane atmosphericflight city city-chicago-il city-columbus-oh city-dayton-il city-indianapolis-in city-logansport-in commercial delivering earth fuel indiana langinsignificant latemodernperiod license-proprietary naturalistic northamerica ohio past postalservice serious trs80model1 trs80model3 usa
Android Nim	Adventure International	1978	androids basic commercial executing forethoughtrequired idleactivity keyboard laserbolts laserweapons license-proprietary machinecodelang nim perfectinformation softscifi sourcecodeavailable traditional visiblelasers	I wrote the original Android Nim program for the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer in 1978. It was well accepted since few graphics programs were done on that machine owing to the low resolution and lack of color. The feature that most people commented about was the android animation which included head and arm movement and eye blinking. People also liked the bad attitude the computer had when it lost. The program was written for my 7th and 8th grade students to help them learn about the binary system. Nim can be analyzed mathematically using base two. With this knowledge, a player can always win. This characteristic also makes this game a good one to put on a computer since the computer can be taught how to always win.*The well known game of NIM will never be the same. In this version there are three robots (ANDROIDS) whose task it is to eliminate those ANDROIDS that you or the computer have decided to "remove". This is done with a lot of "talking" and moving about. But, watch out! The computer gets nasty if you win.[media=youtube]awYrj1RhLxU[/media]**This game uses a programming technique whereby a BASIC program writes machine code that then overwrites the BASIC program in memory and executes the machine code. This has many advantages, including using all available memory on the system. If the application in fact fills up all available memory, users will find it very difficult to modify the program (cheating will be very difficult). The program itself cannot be copied out of memory and saved for illegal resale or sharing. It cannot be decompiled. And the original BASIC program makes little sense unless your are the original developer, it is effectively an encrypted source code.
Armchair Football	Personal Software	1978	americanfootball cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary trs80model1
Asteroid	Adventure International;Adventureworld	1981	5.25disk arenashooter asteroidslike cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary lives score trs80model1
B-1 Nuclear Bomber	Avalon Hill (Microcomputer Games)	1978	5.25disk aircraft-b1-lancer basic city-moscow-ru commercial cpm earth future heathh89 keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic sovietunion uvl-confusable	This entry is for the Heath/Zenith CP/M version of the game and is not a duplicate of [url=/game-160160]the TRS-80 version[/url].
Backgammon	Softside;Software Exchange (Softside)	1980	backgammon basic commercial dice dualism forethoughtrequired license-proprietary naturalistic traditional uvl-confusable
Backgammon	Bourrut Consulting	1978	backgammon basic cassette commercial dice dualism license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Baseball	Microvations	1982	baseball commercial earth keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic nplayers score uvl-confusable
Baseball	author	1978	baseball commercial earth keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic score uvl-confusable
Battering Ram	Microvations	1982	commercial earth keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic nplayers siegerams siegeweapons
Battleship!	The Program Manager	1978	commercial grid grid-square license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 typein uvl-confusable
Bedlam	Tandy Corporation	?	commercial earth escape inaccurateinfo insaneasylum interactivefiction latemodernperiod license-proprietary lunatics trs80model1 trs80model3 walking wordinput
Black Jack	Software Exchange	1978	blackjack21 cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary trs80model1
Blackjack Simulator	Northeast Microware	1978	basic blackjack21 commercial license-proprietary naturalistic tradition trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Bridge 2.0	Dynacomp	1979	bridgecardgame bridgeseries cards commercial license-proprietary
Bridge Game	M, M, & S Software	1978	basic bridgecardgame cards cassette commercial license-proprietary naturalistic trs80model1
Capture	Taylor	1978	basic cassette commercial license-proprietary spacecraft trs80model1
Castle Greymoon	Computer Shack	1982	commercial earth license-proprietary past
Chase	Creative Computing	1980	101basic basic commercial license-proprietary sourcecode sourcecodeavailable typein
Checker King	Personal Software	1980	cassette checkers commercial grid grid-square keyboard langinsignificant license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1
Checkers	Taylor	1978	cassette checkers commercial dualism forethoughtrequired grid grid-square license-proprietary naturalistic perfectinformation traditional trs80model1
Checkers	Radio Shack	1978	basic checkers commercial earth grid grid-square keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Checkers	TRS-80 Software Exchange	1978	basic cassette checkers commercial earth grid grid-square keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Computer Baseball Strategy	Avalon Hill (4D Interactive Systems)	1982	baseball cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary trs80model1
Computer Statis Pro Baseball	The Avalon Hill Game Company (Microcomputer Games)	1983	baseball commercial earth license-proprietary naturalistic
Concentration 1	TRS-80 Software Exchange	1978	cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary memory naturalistic trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Concept Game	Programmers Publishing	1978	commercial keyboard license-proprietary trs80model1 typein uvl-confusable
Conquest of Chesterwoode	Adventure International	1981	basic cassette civilwar commercial currency difficulty-single gamesaves grid grid-hex keyboard license-proprietary machinecodelang mp-saves nplayers savelocal taxes trs80model1 trs80model3 unification war
Conway's Game of Life	CLOAD	1978	101basic basic cassette commercial grid grid-square keyboard license-proprietary lifesimulation opensource trs80model1	The Game of Life was originally described in Scientific American, October 1970, in an article by Martin Gardner. The game itself was originated by John Conway of Gonvi11e and Caius College, University of Cambridge, England.
Count	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Craps	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Craps	Benwill Publishing	1979	commercial keyboard license-proprietary typein uvl-confusable
Cross-Out	Instant Software	1978	basic cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic pegsolitaire score trs80model1
Deadstick: Land the Space Shuttle	SoftSide	1980	commercial gameplayinn landersim license-proprietary nasaspaceshuttle	I think this is the first game to simulate the NASA Space Shuttle. As such, this would be the first game to simulate controlled aerodynamic landing of a spacecraft. It is probably not the 1st game to depict a player controlled reusable spacecraft (or a reusable portion of a spacecraft). Although, I can not think of any examples at the moment I'm sure many games depicted player controlled fictional reusable spacecraft before this one.
Demon Seed	Trend Software	1982	5.25disk bossbattles cassette commercial compositefoes fixedshooter keyboard license-proprietary lives score trs80model1
Devil's Tower	Fantastic Software	1982	cassette commercial joystick keyboard license-proprietary lives score trs80model1
Dice⁄Hyperbagels	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial craps dice license-proprietary mastermind trs80model1
Dogfight	author	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary nplayers spacecraft trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Dogfight II	author	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary spacecraft trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Doomsday	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Draw Poker	Softape	?	cassette commercial license-proprietary poker uvl-confusable
Dungeon Adventure	Farrell Enterprises	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary magic monsters subterranean trs80model1
Dunjonquest: The Datestones of Ryn	Automated Simulations	1979	1life capacity-weight commercial dunjonquest hard inventory license-proprietary maleprotagonist monsters premadecharacters serious subterranean timelimit walking
Early Games for Young Children	Counterpoint Software	1983	5.25disk abstract abstract-location cassette commercial edu-math edu-spelling license-proprietary trs80model1
Earthquake	Aardvark-80	1982	cassette commercial interactivefiction keyboard license-proprietary naturaldisaster wordinput
Empire	Shards Software	1983	cassette coco1 commercial keyboard license-proprietary uvl-confusable wargame

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