The object of Actionauts is to program your robot to perform a series of commands. Use the joystick to set the commands to make the robot walk through a path. On the Commodore 64, you can alter the grid to change the path, the programming is mainly done on the same page and you can select from four robot designs.

1000 Miler is based on the french card games called Mille Bornes. Two players compete against each other to reach 1000 miles before the other. Each player gets seven cards, which can be miles cards for getting closer to your goal or positive or negative cards. Negative cards can be played to cause a flat tire for your opponent, letting …

Ah, life in the big city. Everyone said it would be great, and you, foolishly believed them! Little did you know about the bureaucracy, smog, and desperate weirdos you would encounter! So of course, your goal in this game from the Worlds of ZZT is to ESCAPE FROM THE CITY! To complete ZZT's City, you must master 30 game boards …

Zig Zag Flag Shag contains ten puzzles in which the goal is to move from the left side of a seven by twelve grid to a specific space containing a flag located off of the right side of the grid. To accomplish this goal, the player can move orthogonally or by using chess-style knight moves. To make things more challenging, …

In Zappa Roidz you fly around in a space ship and you have to shoot all the asteroids and aliens you encounter. When you shoot a large asteroid it will break into smaller asteroids that you also have to shoot. On a map you can see where all the asteroids and aliens are. Your space ship can be destroyed by …

Xenopods is a futuristic overhead tank shooter. The year is 3871, and you take the role of a lone survivor on a frontier outpost that's been attacked by sinister-looking alien larvae. As pilot your security drone around each sector, you must repair the communication links to alert the Federation. However, the aliens will do everything they can to sabotage your …

Word Ladders is a variant on the common word puzzle in which the player must turn one word into another by changing one letter at a time, with each intervening step still being a valid English word. The game is broken into rounds which offer increasingly challenging puzzles, there is an optional Expert Mode which adds further difficulty to play. …

In Vor Terra the player takes on the role of a Knight, who is attempting to restore order to his land and become its ruler, after the old King died and the kingdom turned into a wasteland in chaos, it's inhabitants now suffering from plagues, thieves and monsters. In order to accomplish this the knight must search the land for …

You guide your frogman down to the chest, grab it, and swim back to your boat. But there are sharks and eels who you should try to avoid. Sharks swim from the right side of the screen to the left side, and eels swim from left to right. On every higher level there will be more sharks and eels. On …

This game, part of the Classic Adventure Series, has the adventuresome player searching for Queen Anne's crown, which was lost in the eighteenth century and last seen in the Arabian desert. Although entirely text-based, the game takes a somewhat visual approach to interactive fiction. The screen is split into several boxes: an area description (which specifies visible exits), an inventory, …

This follow-up to The Computer Quiz features the same engine, but its hundred questions deal with the BASIC programming language. As before, the player is given three "men," and loses a man every time a question is answered incorrectly. Bonus men can be earned by answering ten questions correctly. At the end of play, men are cashed in for points, …

You play the role of a magician, who is called upon by the townspeople to defeat his ancient archrival Nemesis again. After having defeated Nemesis in the past, his minions have erected a huge museleum in his honour, and as a result the townspeople are forced to live under a rule of horror. You must once again venture into the …

This multiple-choice quiz game asks fifty questions about astronomy. It covers all facets of astronomy, its history, the cosmos and the people who discovered it. Interestingly, the player is given three marks and loses a mark every time a question is answered incorrectly. Bonus marks can be earned by answering five questions correctly. At the end of play, marks are …

This game allows the player to control a simulated United States attack submarine. The game is played in a hybrid turn-based/real-time mode -- there are turns, but there is a timer on each turn, so the player needs to act quickly. The screen displays a large amount of information on the current situation, and the player must use menu commands …

You are the lone astronaut on a long-range deep-space probe of the Horse Head Nebula. Your small ship is suddenly overtaken by a gigantic alien spacecraft. Before you can escape, you are seized by a tractor beam and pulled aboard their ship. The aliens immediately blast your ship apart and drag you from the wreckage. Although you fight valiantly, you …

This simple quiz game, included in Big Blue Disk #20, is designed to help players remember United States capitals. It contains five data sets, each containing ten states and capitals that must be matched up. At the start of play, each state is matched with a random capital, by swapping the placement of pairs of capital names, the player must …

The object of this game is to capture and bring to justice (put in jail in other words) criminals in the Old West for cash. Your score depends on how much cash you make during your adventure.

In this Tic-Tac-Toe-style game, the player and the computer compete to be the first to make a 2x2 square within a 10x10 grid. The computer AI has five levels of intelligence, and the player gets to choose who goes first. It is also possible to save a game and resume it later.

Geography class. Remember the routine for the "region of the week"? Monday: read the chapters. Tuesday and Wednesday: endure the lectures. Thursday: stare at the badly mimeographed maps. If you were able to rattle off the rivers, mountain ranges, and top five cash crops on Friday's test, you had it made. Five milliseconds after handing in your paper, you could …

Street Ball is an Arcade/Puzzle game where your goal is to guide a bouncing ball through a maze collecting treasures and avoiding obstacles. Your ball moves back and forth on wires until you release it, at which point it bounces around the maze until it hits another wire. It has a limited number of "hit points" so you must time …

Legends tell of a race of super beings, the Slordax, who once tried to conquer the galaxy. The war lasted for a century. In the end, the Slordax were repelled. The Slordian system was dead for over seven hundred years. But now the Slordax are back. The Intergalactic Defense Alliance gave you the task to take them out with your …

Your father had located the sunken remains of the Barbarosa, one of the last terrible pirate ships to sail in Caribbean waters. But he disappeared mysteriously during a diving trip. Now it's your turn to go to the Barbarosa to solve this mystery and fulfill your father's dream of treasureYou play a diver who must find the treasures of the …

This game centers around rearranging the letters of words. It has several different modes. In the standard game, a word is presented and the player must find as many words as possible by mixing around letters from the word. In the "anagrams only" game, things work much like the standard game, but the player must use all of the letters …

This is a very simple EGA game that displays a screen with four images of random items and the child chooses whether all the images are the same or if one of them is different. After answering YES or NO, feedback is given on correctness (if one image is different and the child answers incorrectly the image flashes on the …