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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Bedlam	Tandy Corporation	?
Draw Poker	Softape	?
Othello III	Mad Hatter Software	?	At strategy game played on an eight by eight board. The object of the game is to capture as many of the squares as possible. You can play against the computer, a friend or have the computer play against itself. Has an interesting graphics display.
Paranoids Anonymous	author	?
The Amazing Ben	Krell Software	?
Trek Adventure	author	?
Aardvark	Taylor	1978
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
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	Bourrut Consulting	1978
Baseball	author	1978
Battleship!	The Program Manager	1978
Blackjack Simulator	Northeast Microware	1978
Bridge Game	M, M, & S Software	1978
Capture	Taylor	1978
Checkers	Taylor	1978
Checkers	Radio Shack	1978
Count	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Craps	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Dice⁄Hyperbagels	Taylor	1978
Doomsday	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Dungeon Adventure	Farrell Enterprises	1978
Fastgammon	Quality Software	1978
Fifteen	The Bottom Shelf	1978
fipfop	Creative Computing;Multi-Micro media	1978
Game of Life	M, M, & S Software	1978
Gypsy	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Hammurabi	Software Exchange	1978
Hamurabi	Radio Shack	1978
Hexapawn	Creative Computing	1978	[media=youtube]pLFdduFxeaA[/media]***Hexapawn is a conversion of the board game Hexapawn for BASIC computers. In the game both the player and the computer have three pawns on a 3x3 field in parallel lines. Both the player and computer must try to reach the other side of the field with a single pawn, or prevent the other player from making any move. Normal chess rules for pawns apply. They can move one or two spaces in a straight line, they can only attack diagonally and pawns can be slain "en passant". The computer features an AI that will learn from past mistakes by removing all moves that lead to defeat from its array of possible moves. The game keeps track of the number of wins and losses.
Horse	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Horses	Taylor	1978
Jumble 1	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Jumble 2	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Keno	?	1978
Kleon	Software Exchange	1978
Life	The Bottom Shelf	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.
Memory Quiz Letters	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Memory Quiz Numbers	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Odd One	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Oriental Rings	Esstoo-Deetoo Products	1978
Patterns⁄Pinball	Taylor	1978
Poker	Taylor	1978
Race	Taylor	1978
Race Track	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Rally	Taylor	1978
Roachrace	The Bottom Shelf	1978
Roulette⁄One Armed Bandit	Taylor	1978
RSL-1	Small System Software	1978

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