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Mind Strike
1983
Mind Strike
1983
What a romp! A mind-jolter that can be played slow, using alternating turns, or fast, with both players simultaneously hooked to the ultimate goal of conquering each other's CASTLE! Playing it slow, it's called MIND STRIKE, and requires quite a bit of strategic thinking. Playing it fast it's called SPEED STRIKE, and it's a dazzler that blends action with strategy! Choose up to 50 playing boards or design your own. Program the computer opponent's skill level (to your or his advantage). Engage in tantalizing confrontations. Combine your pieces for greater strength or split them apart to move farther. Make it as wild or as absorbing as your mind allows it to be!Alien Garden
1982
Alien Garden
1982
Alien Garden is set on a scrolling planet consisting mainly of 24 clusters of crystals, representing flowers. You control an embryonic life-form and must ensure its survival and reproduction through up to 20 generations.Smithereens!
1982
Smithereens!
1982
Stone Sling is the 20th official game released by Philips for the Videopac console. In the United States, it was sold under the title Smithereens! for the Magnavox Odyssey² console. The game allows for two player simultaneous gameplay where both players have a fortress as well as a catapult used to fire each other. With each hit the fortress' size decreases by a bit. However, sometimes if your aim is off, the catapult will miss the fortress and instead hit one of the opposing soldiers. Like other Videopac games, Stone Sling could not compete against Atari games, though the game did do well in Europe and Brazil.Andromeda Conquest
1982
Andromeda Conquest
1982
Andromeda Conquest is a strategy / conquest game in which one to four players build galactic empires by establishing and defending space colonies, managing resources, and battling other players for control of star systems. Before every turn, players receive resources from all their colonies. Those have to be used up during the turn or they are lost. Depending on the numbers of players the galaxy consists of 12 to 48 star systems. The layout is grid-based, and the package includes a pad of graph paper for keeping track of ship and colony locations.Back 40 III
1981
Back 40 III
1981
A version of the classic board game Backgammon that was written by Bill Miller and Steve Glenn.Z-Chess III
1981
Z-Chess III
1981
A chess program written by Bill Miller for the TRS-80 and published by Adventure International.Commbat
1981
Commbat
1981
A strategic and tactical game for two players(two computers connected via the RS232 connection) written by Bob Schilling and published by Adventure International.Blackjack and Poker
1981
Blackjack and Poker
1981
Card games and computers seem to go hand-in-hand. TI's offering, Blackjack & Poker, allows you to play Blackjack or Stud Poker against the computer, or with up to three other players. The Blackjack game has most of the features of real Blackjack, except for the "split" option. The Stud Poker game pits you against three other players (human, computer or both), and follows the rules for 5-Card Stud. Will you break the bank, or lose your shirt? Only Lady Luck knows for sure!30 Battlefield
1981
The Mean Checkers Machine 2
1980
A version of the classic board game in which the opponent of the player is "The Mean Checkers Machine". Written by Lance Micklus and published by Adventure International for TRS-80.Galactic Revolution
1980
Video Checkers
1980
ABPA Backgammon
1980
ABPA Backgammon
1980
Intellivision Backgammon is identical with the board game. Backgammon is a game played by two players (the computer can be one of the players). Each player has 15 pieces. The object of the game is to be the first to move all your pieces completely around and finally off the board. Moving your pieces off the board is called "bearing off". The first player to bear off all his pieces is the winner. Each player moves in a direction beginning from his opponent's Home Table and coming around to his own Home Table. Thus one player always moves clockwise and the other always counterclockwise. You can play against the computer at two skill levels - one for beginners or intermediate, another for experts - or two players can compete against each other. It displays the American Backgammon Players Association (ABPA) logo.Crown of Arthain
1980
Crown of Arthain
1980
Crown of Arthain is a two-player fantasy game in which the board, a hex map drawn in hi-res graphics with features such as rivers, forests, and a mountain range down the middle, is home for two princes searching for their father's crown.Videocart-22: Slot Machine
1980
In this slot machine simulation, the player can choose the starting purse (from 1-99 USD) and then bet on each spin of the slot reels. The game offers two modes: Random play lets the wheel spin and then stop randomly, and select play lets the player choose when to stop each wheel at a time.Tanktics: Computer game of Armored Combat on the Eastern Front
1979
Using only text commands, players engage in turn-based tank battles against AI opponents.Galactic Trader
1979
Galactic Trader
1979
A strategy game written by Douglas Carlston and the second one in the Galactic Saga.War of Nerves!
1979
War of Nerves!
1979
This is some sort of a capture the flag game. Instead of a flag, the object is to capture the enemy general. Two armies share the screen, the Army of Northwestonia in the upper left corner and the Army of Southeasternia in the lower right corner. The players control the general of the army with the joystick. The robots in each army are controlled by the computer, and their mission is to capture the enemy general.3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
1979
3-D Tic-Tac-Toe
1979
star 5.1The game is similar to the traditional game of tic-tac-toe, but is played on four 4×4 grids stacked vertically; it is basically a computerized version of the board game Qubic using traditional tic-tac-toe notation and layout. To win, a player must place four of their symbols on four squares that line up vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, on a single grid, or spaced evenly over all four grids. This creates a total of 76 possible ways to win, in comparison to eight possible ways to win on a standard 3×3 board. The game has nine variations: it can be played by two players against each other, or one player can play against a built-in AI on one of eight different difficulty settings. The game uses the standard joystick controller.Number Magic
1979
Number Magic
1979
Number Magic is an educational game designed to teach young children arithmetic. It is based around a stage magic theme, and includes many images of rabbits and top hats. Three modes are available. Quick Quiz displays randomly-generated arithmetic questions and the player is scored by correct answers. Comp Quiz allows the user to customize several quiz options, such as enable time limits, choose whether to complete answers or missing numbers, and select custom or randomly-generated questions. Electroflash is similar to Comp Quiz but all of the questions include a specific number and arithmetic operation, chosen by the user. After each quiz, the player can choose to repeat the same quiz, generate a new quiz with the same options, select a new quiz type, or quit.
