Basic Computer Games
December 23, 2018 —
shinohai
Old computer nostalgia often hits some of us hard on Telegram, and hours will be spent in conversation or reliving the glory days of TRS-80 and Commodore64 machines. In one such conversation, I mentioned I had a tarball somewhere of all the programs in the old 1978 book "Basic Computer Games" published by Creative Computing. After a brief search, the package was located and I decided to uploaded it to the /warez/ section of the library for others to enjoy - whether you are painfully typing these in line by line in original hardware or loading them with an emulator, I hope the collection brings back lots of pleasant memories for those of us that still enjoy tinkering with these things. Most of these I can verify still indeed work well on original hardware: I loaded many of these into my old TRS80 using a HxC2001 SD floppy emulator (because I'm lazy and didn't want to hand type them all) and ran with 0 syntax errors.
Table of games included in the archive:
Game Name: Filename: Description: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Acey Ducey aceyducey.bas Play acey-ducey with the computer Amazing amazing.bas Computer constructs a maze Animal animal.bas Computer guesses animals and learns new ones from you Awari awari.bas Ancient game of rotating beans in pits Bagels bagels.bas Guess a mystery 3-digit number by logic Banner banner.bas Prints any message on a large banner Basketball basketball.bas Basketball game Batnum batnum.bas Match wits in a battle of numbers vs. the computer Battle battle.bas Decode a matrix to locate enemy battleship Blackjack blackjack.bas Blackjack (very comprehensive), Las Vegas rules Bombardment bombardment.bas Destroy the computer's platoons with missles before it finds yours Bombs Away bombsaway.bas Fly World War II bombing missions Bounce bounce.bas Plot a bouncing ball Bowling bowling.bas Bowling at the neighborhood lanes Boxing boxing.bas 3-round Olympic boxing match Bug bug.bas Roll dice vs. the computer to draw a bug Bullfight bullfight.bas You're the matador in a championship bullfight Bullseye bullseye.bas Throw darts Bunny bunny.bas Computer drawing of the Playboy bunny Buzzword buzzword.bas Compose your speeches with the latest buzzwords Calendar calendar.bas Calendar for any year Change change.bas Computer imitates a cashier Checkers checkers.bas Game of checkers Chemist chemist.bas Dilute kryptocyanic acid to make it harmless Chief chief.bas Silly arithmetic drill Chomp chomp.bas Eat a cookie avoiding the poison piece (2 or more players) Civil War civilwar.bas Fight the Civil War Combat combat.bas Fight a small-scale war with the computer Craps craps.bas Play craps (dice), Las Vegas style Cube cube.bas Negotiate a 3-D cube avoiding hidden landmines Depth Charge depthcharge.bas Launch depth charges to destroy a submarine Diamond diamond.bas Prints 1-page diamond patterns Dice dice.bas Summarizes dice rolls Digits digits.bas Computer tries to guess digits you select at random Even Wins evenwins.bas Take objects from a pile?try to end with an even number Game of Even Wins gameofevenwins.bas Same as Even Wins?computer improves its play Flip Flop flipflop.bas Solitaire logic game?change a row of Xs to Os Ftball ftball.bas American football?you vs. the computer Football football.bas American football for two players Fur Trader furtrader.bas Trade furs with the white man Golf golf.bas Golf game?choose your clubs and swing Gomoko gomoko.bas Ancient board game of logic and strategy Guess guess.bas Guess a mystery number?computer gives you clues Gunner gunner.bas Fire a cannon at a stationary target Hammurabi hammurabi.bas Govern the ancient city-state of Sumeria Hangman hangman.bas Hangman word guessing game Hello hello.bas Computer becomes your friendly psychiatrist Hexapawn hexapawn.bas Hexapawn game Hi-Lo hi-lo.bas Try to hit the mystery jackpot High I-Q highiq.bas Try to remove all the pegs from a board Hockey hockey.bas Ice hockey, two players Horserace horserace.bas Off-track betting on a horse race Hurkle hurkle.bas Find the Hurkle hiding on a 10x10 grid Kinema kinema.bas Drill in simple kinematics King king.bas Govern a modern island kingdom wisely Letter letter.bas Guess a mystery letter?computer gives you clues Life life.bas John Conway's Game of Life Life For Two lifefortwo.bas Competitive game of Life (two or more players) Lite Quiz litquiz.bas Children's literature quiz Love love.bas Robert Indiana's artwork, your message Lunar lunar.bas Land an Apollo capsule on the moon LEM lem.bas Very comprehensive lunar landing Rocket rocket.bas Lunar landing from 500 feet (with plot) Master Mind mastermind.bas Guess the colors of pegs?then the computer guesses yours Math Dice mathdice.bas Children's arithmetic drill using pictures of dice Mugwump mugwump.bas Locate 4 mugwumps hiding on a 10x10 grid Name name.bas An ice-breaker with the computer Nicomachus nicomachus.bas Computer guesses number you think of Nim nim.bas Chinese game of Nim Number number.bas Silly number matching game One Check onecheck.bas Challenging game to remove checkers from a board Orbit orbit.bas Destroy an orbiting germ-laden enemy spaceship Pizza pizza.bas Deliver pizzas successfully Poetry poetry.bas Computer composes random poetry Poker poker.bas Poker game Queen queen.bas Move a single chess queen vs. the computer Reverse reverse.bas Order a series of numbers by reversing R,P,S rockscissors.bas Game of rock, scissors, paper Roulette roulette.bas European roulette table Russian Roulette russianroulette.bas Russian roulette Salvo salvo.bas Destroy an enemy fleet of ships Sine Wave sinewave.bas Draw a sine wave on screen Slalom slalom.bas Simulates a slalom run Slots slots.bas Slot machine (one-armed bandit) Splat splat.bas Open a parachute at the last possible moment Stars stars.bas Guess a mystery number?stars give you clues Stock Market stockmarket.bas Stock market simulation Super Star Trek superstartrek.bas Comprehensive game of Star Trek STK: Instructions superstartrekins.bas Instructions for Super Star Trek Synonym synonym.bas Word synonym drill Target target.bas Destroy a target in 3-D space?very tricky 3-D Plot 3dplot.bas Plot families of curves?looks 3-dimensional 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe qubit.bas Game of tic-tac-toe in a 4x4x4 cube Tic-Tac-Toe 1 tictactoe1.bas Simple version Tic-Tac-Toe 2 tictactoe2.bas This version prints out the board Tower tower.bas Towers of Hanoi puzzle Train train.bas Time-speed-distance quiz Trap trap.bas Trap a mystery number?computer gives you clues 23 Matches 23matches.bas Game of 23 matches?try not to take the last one War war.bas Card game of war Weekday weekday.bas Facts about your birthday Word word.bas Word guessing game |
The entire archive is available for download here: Basic Computer Games (bcg.tar.gz)
Tags: UNIX, Vintage_Computing, Games
