True to form, this Frogger derivative stars a green little amphibian whose only ambition is to make it safely to the other side of the screen. You, the player, must guide it carefully across a multi-lane city street, hopefully without getting squished in the bustling traffic. Then it's on to the river, where our toadie must employ logs and floating …

This strategy game is played on a 8x8 board, which starts out populated with a specific pattern of pieces. There is always one human player against the computer: you control the blue pieces, based around the center of the board, the computer player ("Max") commands the red ones, arranged along the corners. Each side makes one move per turn (moving …

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Perhaps notable for a valiant effort at real-time, wireframe 3-D graphics in (Tandy 1000) BASIC, Quasar is a first-person space shooter taking place across multiple quadrants of an unnamed galactic sector. Your fighter is equipped with limited energy stores, and a double laser (which depletes said energy). You start off in a planetary sector populated by waves of hostiles, which …

This blackjack game may either be played against the computer, against another human rival, or (in a three-player game) against both of them simultaneously. In contrast to most implementations (which reproduce the concept of playing in a casino), here the computer doesn't take on the dealer's role -- rather, it takes its own chances at the table and places bets …

Fluf! is a maze-based action game which vaguely follows the same general idea as Pac-Man, with a few important differences. Most obviously, the maze layouts and the marauding monsters are different from level to level, and instead of gobbling up all the dots the goal is to flip the blue squares over to red (by simply walking over them). These …

Expo may be thought of as an exploration-based puzzle game: each level strands the player somewhere within a scrolling overhead map, and the goal is to find a way out of the maze-like surroundings. This is done by finding and collecting the required golden keys (a different number on each level) and then reaching the exit. Trouble is, you have …

Your main aspiration here is to get as rich as you can by placing your bets at the dog racing venue. You start out with $1000 on hand, plus half that sum deposited in the bank. Three grayhounds take part in each race, and the bet is on the winner only (with a fixed return of 150%). The game keeps …

Bringing the art of Breakout-cloning to Tandy 1000 BASIC, Breakoff provides yet another account of the age-old enmity between orb and masonry. A wall of bricks is placed across the top of the screen, opposite the laterally-moving paddle below, as the player deflects the bouncing ball and attempts to knock down the barrier one block at a time. Point values …

In this variation on the well-known theme, the player sets off to the skies to inflict damage on the unsuspecting cities below. The bomber zig-zags across the heavens, losing altitude with every turnaround, and must judiciously drop bombs onto the awaiting architecture, the goal is to wipe out enough skyline to survive the descent. In familiar fashion, only one bomb …