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Black Box gameplay

Activities concept

A significant portion of gameplay involves discerning what the player is not shown by observing the effects of manipulating or interacting with said unseen elements.

208
games
45
platforms
Reflections (ZX Spectrum)
Reflections
SPC 1983
Code-Breaker (Apple II E)
Code-Breaker
IIE 1982-06
Black-Box (Linux)
Black-Box
LIN 2000
Dark Echo (Windows)
Dark Echo
WIN 2015-05-11
Piazza Hotel (TRS-80)
Piazza Hotel
TRS 1982-08
Mastermatch (Atari 400/800)
Mastermatch
A800 1983
Snark Hunt (Atari 400/800)
Snark Hunt
A800 1982
Bagels (DEC PDP-1)
Bagels
PDP1 1972-10
MacMasterMind (Macintosh OS Classic)
MacMasterMind
MAC 1994
Box (Commodore PET)
Box
PET 1979
Box (Commodore 64)
Box
C64 1983
Parsec (Windows 3.1)
Parsec
W31 1993

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Games by year

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The first Black Box gameplay video game was released on August 1, 1972.

Creative Computing, Texas Instruments and Delorie Software published most of these games.

Related site

Wikipedia article on "Black box"

Platforms

Linux 35
Apple II E 27
Mac OS Classic 13
custom 11
Altair 8800 9
TI Calculators 9
COSMAC VIP 8
OS/2 7
TRS-80 7
Tandy Coco 6
MS-DOS 5
Commodore PET 5
Windows 4
Ohio Scientific 4
Newton 4
BeOS 4
DEC PDP-1 4
Atari 400/800 4
Win3.1 3
Unix 3
Android 3
BSD 3
C64 3
ZX Spectrum 2
NeXT 2
Commander X16 2
Amiga 2
Solaris 2
KIM-1 1
Archimedes 1

Most common companies

Creative Computing24
Texas Instruments7
Delorie Software5
RAC7 Games5
Softside4
People's Computer Company4
Microsoft4
ARESCO4
Personal Programming Center4
RCA3
UpTime3
Hewlett-Packard3
CLOAD3
Questdata2
BYTE Publications2