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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
23 Matches	Tandy	1978	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
Air Flight Simulation	Instant Software	1979
Air Traffic Controller	Creative Computing Software	1979
Airmail Pilot	Instant Software	1979
Android Nim	Adventure International	1978	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
Asteroid	Adventure International;Adventureworld	1981
B-1 Nuclear Bomber	Avalon Hill (Microcomputer Games)	1978	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	Bourrut Consulting	1978
Baseball	Microvations	1982
Baseball	author	1978
Battering Ram	Microvations	1982
Battleship!	The Program Manager	1978
Bedlam	Tandy Corporation	?
Black Jack	Software Exchange	1978
Blackjack Simulator	Northeast Microware	1978
BREAKFORTH	Miller Microcomputer Services	1980
Bridge 2.0	Dynacomp	1979
Bridge Game	M, M, & S Software	1978
Capture	Taylor	1978
Castle Greymoon	Computer Shack	1982
Chase	Creative Computing	1980
Checker King	Personal Software	1980
Checkers	Taylor	1978
Checkers	Radio Shack	1978
Checkers	TRS-80 Software Exchange	1978
Computer Baseball Strategy	Avalon Hill (4D Interactive Systems)	1982
Computer Statis Pro Baseball	The Avalon Hill Game Company (Microcomputer Games)	1983
Concentration 1	TRS-80 Software Exchange	1978
Concept Game	Programmers Publishing	1978
Conquest of Chesterwoode	Adventure International	1981
Conway's Game of Life	CLOAD	1978	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
Craps	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Craps	Benwill Publishing	1979
Cross-Out	Instant Software	1978
Deadstick: Land the Space Shuttle	SoftSide	1980	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
Derelict	Aardvark-80	1982
Devil's Tower	Fantastic Software	1982
Dice⁄Hyperbagels	Taylor	1978
Dogfight	author	1978
Dogfight II	author	1978
Doomsday	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Draw Poker	Softape	?
Dungeon Adventure	Farrell Enterprises	1978
Dunjonquest: The Datestones of Ryn	Automated Simulations	1979
Early Games for Young Children	Counterpoint Software	1983

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