Hi folks,
Just letting you all know that this week's article will be delayed. I'm in a particularly difficult personal situation at the moment, so the blog has not had much of my attention this week.
Will post again when it's ready.
I also forgot that I'm going away to visit family and friends over the Easter weekend, so there won't be a regular article next week, either.
Normal scheduling to resume April 10th.
Release Date: July 1973
Platform: Mainframe (BASIC type-in)
Genre(s): Management Simulation
Developer(s): Dan G. Bachor
Publisher(s): Digital Equipment Corporation
This week's game is quite a fascinating one. Fur Trader is a historical-educational game of several firsts: the first Canadian-made video game, the first business simulation game... there's also some adventure game characteristics, and aspects reminiscent of The Oregon Trail, which Fur Trader also happens to have an interesting connection to... come join the fur trading expedition!
Release Date: July 1973
Platform: Mainframe (BASIC type-in)
Genre: Puzzle
Developer(s): Michael Kass
Publisher(s): Digital Equipment Corporation
We're continuing in the realm of basic (ha) puzzle games today. Flip Flop, while it's an odd name, turns out to be a fairly straightforward logic puzzle.
Release Date: July 1973
Platform: Mainframe (BASIC type-in)
Genre: Puzzle (Nim Variant)
Developer(s): Eric Peters
Publisher(s): Digital Equipment Corporation
Trust me, it sounds way cooler than it actually is.
This little side quest is a follow-up from last week's Even Wins article. As I stated there, 101 BASIC Computer Games has two versions of Even Wins. The one from last week's article is the original, which uses a conventional AI. This one, which is called EVEN1 and Game of Even Wins by the two versions of the book respectively, does something a little different with its AI: it learns.
Release Date: July 1973
Platform: Mainframe (BASIC type-in)
Genre: Puzzle (Nim)
Developer(s): Unknown
Publisher(s): Digital Equipment Corporation
101 BASIC Computer Games already has several variants of the ancient game of Nim. We've already seen Batnum (the 1970 version) and Nim (otherwise known as Gamnim), and now we've arrived at the final variant of the "piles of objects" games in the original version of the book - Even Wins.