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Traditional game

Video game theme

Video game adaptation of a traditional game. Also when uses real traditional gaming materials.

3192
games
158
platforms
Backgammon (TRS-80)
Backgammon
TRS 1979
War Chess (Windows)
War Chess
WIN 2004
Draughts (Acorn Electron)
Draughts
ELEC 1985
Flippit (MS-DOS)
Flippit
DOS 1989
A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer (custom platform)
A Chess Playing Program for the IBM 7090 Computer
CSTM 1962-05
Chessmaster 10th Edition (Windows)
Chessmaster 10th Edition
WIN 2004-08-12
First Moves (ZX Spectrum)
First Moves
SPC ? *
Chess Tutor (ZX Spectrum)
Chess Tutor
SPC 1983
Colossus Chess 4 (ZX Spectrum)
Colossus Chess 4
SPC 1986
Othello (Amiga OCS)
Othello
OCS 198?
Kiriki (Linux)
Kiriki
LIN 2005
Dominoes (MS-DOS)
Dominoes
DOS 1984
To farther describe games of this type, see the list of traditional games.

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Child groups

Miniature game, Boardgame Tie-in, Tangram

Games by year

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The first Traditional game video game was released in 1948.

Leisure Genius, Domark and Commodore published most of these games.

Platforms

MS-DOS 475
Windows 261
Linux 249
C64 141
Apple II E 133
Mac OS Classic 129
custom 105
Amiga 88
ZX Spectrum 85
BeOS 75
Win3.1 70
Commodore PET 66
Atari ST 63
Amstrad CPC 58
OS/2 58
TRS-80 58
Atari 400/800 55
NES 45
PS 45
GB 30
NeXT 30
MSX 28
DEC PDP-1 28
GBC 27
BBC 27
BSD 24
Oric 23
Tandy Coco 21
C16/Plus4 21
Atom 21

Most common companies

Leisure Genius35
Domark29
Commodore25
CDS Software25
Creative Computing24
The Software Toolworks20
CP Software20
Interplay18
Electronic Arts18
Oxford Softworks16
IBM16
Gremlin Graphics16
Digital Equipment Computer Users' Society14
Hayden Books13
Softside13