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name	publisher(developer)	year	tags	description
Bedlam	Tandy Corporation	?	commercial earth escape inaccurateinfo insaneasylum interactivefiction latemodernperiod license-proprietary lunatics trs80model1 trs80model3 walking wordinput
Draw Poker	Softape	?	cassette commercial license-proprietary poker uvl-confusable
Othello III	Mad Hatter Software	?	commercial dualism grid grid-square keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic reversi	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	?	basic interactivefiction keyboard license-proprietary sourcecodeavailable wordinput
The Amazing Ben	Krell Software	?	ai-content artificialintelligence commercial learningai license-proprietary
Trek Adventure	author	?	basic license-proprietary sourcecodeavailable
Aardvark	Taylor	1978	aardvarks ants basic cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
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
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	Bourrut Consulting	1978	backgammon basic cassette commercial dice dualism license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Baseball	author	1978	baseball commercial earth keyboard license-proprietary naturalistic score uvl-confusable
Battleship!	The Program Manager	1978	commercial grid grid-square license-proprietary naturalistic traditional trs80model1 typein uvl-confusable
Blackjack Simulator	Northeast Microware	1978	basic blackjack21 commercial license-proprietary naturalistic tradition trs80model1 uvl-confusable
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
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
Count	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Craps	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Dice⁄Hyperbagels	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial craps dice license-proprietary mastermind trs80model1
Doomsday	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Dungeon Adventure	Farrell Enterprises	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary magic monsters subterranean trs80model1
Fastgammon	Quality Software	1978	5.25disk backgammon cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary traditional trs80model1
Fifteen	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
fipfop	Creative Computing;Multi-Micro media	1978	101basic basic commercial license-proprietary sourcecode sourcecodeavailable typein
Game of Life	M, M, & S Software	1978	basic cassette commercial grid grid-square license-proprietary lifesimulation trs80model1
Gypsy	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Hammurabi	Software Exchange	1978	cassette commercial keyboard license-proprietary trs80model1
Hamurabi	Radio Shack	1978	bc1780s bc18thcentury bc2ndmillennium commercial earth keyboard license-proprietary mesopotamian-theme naturalistic past trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Hexapawn	Creative Computing	1978	basic cassette chess commercial license-proprietary trs80model1	[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	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Horses	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial horseracing license-proprietary trs80model1
Jumble 1	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Jumble 2	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Keno	?	1978	cassette commercial currency keno license-proprietary mp-versus nplayers trs80model1
Kleon	Software Exchange	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Life	The Bottom Shelf	1978	101basic basic cassette commercial license-proprietary opensource trs80model1 uvl-confusable	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	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Memory Quiz Numbers	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Odd One	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Oriental Rings	Esstoo-Deetoo Products	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary naturalistic towersofhanoi traditional trs80model1
Patterns⁄Pinball	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary pinball trs80model1
Poker	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary poker trs80model1
Race	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Race Track	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1 uvl-confusable
Rally	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Roachrace	The Bottom Shelf	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary trs80model1
Roulette⁄One Armed Bandit	Taylor	1978	cassette commercial license-proprietary roulette slotmachine trs80model1
RSL-1	Small System Software	1978	commercial grid grid-square license-proprietary lifesimulation machinecodelang trs80model1

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