stuff grabbed from http://www.vintage-basic.net/games.html
Name | filename | description |
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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) |
Literature 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 |
Rock, Scissors, Paper | 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 |
Super Star Trek: 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 |