| Title | Category | Year | Status | Language | Summary | |
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| Boom! | Game-action | 1990 | BASIC | Kaboom! Clone | ||
| Rally Race | Game-racing | ???? | BASIC | A not-very-good top-down single-car race. | ||
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Math Attack | Game-edu | 1987? | BASIC | A very bad arithmetic quiz game. | |
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Axis | Game-action | 1989 | BASIC | Navigate an isometric screen with objects to collect, and pits to jump over or go around. | |
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Sharp Shooter | Game-sports | 1989 | BASIC | Joystick-based shooting game | |
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Porsche | demo | >1992 | TurboBASIC XL | Sound & graphics demo | |
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Ice Racing | Game-racing | 1989 | BASIC | An okay top-down single-vehicle race. | |
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Tank | Game-action | 198x | BASIC | Combat-style game | |
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Graveyard | Game-action | 1988 | BASIC | Run through the graveyard, and avoid the ghost | |
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Brick Blast | Game-breakout | 1987 | BASIC | Breakout clone | |
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Boing! | Game-jumprun | 1993 | TurboBASIC XL | Attempt at a bounce-and-roll game | |
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Team Spirit Soccer | Game-sports | 1988 | BASIC | A (ironically) one-on-one soccer game | |
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Tetbricks | Game-tetris | 1991 | BASIC | A combination of Tetris and Breakout | |
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Morse Code | utility | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Converts text to morse code, with sound |
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Light Cycles | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Light cycle game |
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Large Font | utility | ???? | Finished | BASIC | Draws large bitmapped text on the screen |
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Minarets and Memories | demo | 1993 | Finished | TurboBASIC XL | Digitized audio & video demo |
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Jigsaw | Game-puzzle | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | A jigsaw puzzle game |
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Hopper | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Jump on platforms, collect bags of money, don't fall, avoid the bad guy. |
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Hit It | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | A whack-a-mole clone |
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Gates | Game-board | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Two-player turn-based maze game, based on an Apple II game |
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Isolation | Game-board | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Port of “Isolation” from Commodore 64 |
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Jackpot | Game-cards | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | A slot machine simulator |
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Lander | Game-action | 1989? | Finished | BASIC | Lunar Lander clone |
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Jungle | Game-jumprun | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Clone of Floyd of the Jungle |
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My first program | demo | 1986 | Finished | BASIC | The first BASIC program I ever saved to a floppy disk! |
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Lantern | demo | 1992? | Finished | TurboBASIC XL | Halloween Jack-o-Lantern |
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Plane | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | A side-view game where you fly a plane in loop-the-loops to collect... well, squares. |
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Superflex | Game-action | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Fly over a planet and collect objects; avoid fiery pits. |
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Snakeline | Game-action | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | My first successful “snake game” algorithm! |
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Snake | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Another snake game; collect the dots, and grow in length |
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Tanks | Game-action | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Combat-style game |
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Train Station | Game-misc | 1987 | Finished | BASIC | Pick the right suit case before the train arrives |
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Wordster | Game-edu | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | A pattern-recognition game |
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Weight Lifting | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Joystick-wiggling sports games |
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Usurp | Game-board | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Strategy game |
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Sludge | Game-puzzle | 1994 | Finished | Action! | Pipe Dreams clone |
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Skeet Shoot | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Blocky clone of skeet shooting from Summer Games. |
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Garbage | Game-action | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Port of Timex Sinclair 1000 type-in game “Garbage” |
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Piano | utility | 1989? | Finished | BASIC | A simple keyboard-based piano program |
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Piano | utility | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Musical keyboard |
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Puzzle | Game-puzzle | Finished | BASIC | Sliding number puzzle | |
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Red | Game-misc | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | A strange side-scroller where you float with a balloon, avoiding clouds, birds, and slingshots from bad-guys on the ground. |
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Simon Says | Game-board | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | A “Simon Says” game |
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Rodent Revenge | Game-puzzle | 1994 | Finished | TurboBASIC XL | Clone of Rodent's Revenge |
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Othello | Game-board | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | A 2-player othello game |
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Inference Engine | experiment | ???? | Finished | BASIC | Learns and can disseminate facts (e.g., “a bear is a mammal, and an animal”) |
| Platforms | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Jump to the top | |
| Skiing | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Scrolling skiing/slalom game | |
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Bounceback | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Pong |
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Bubble Sort | utility | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Front-end to a ML sorting routine from a magazine |
| Zeus | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Catch Zeus' lightning bolts with your staff; don't let them hit you, or the ground. | |
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Chicken | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | A Frogger / Freeway style game |
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Checkers | Game-board | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | A rather okay Checkers game |
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Bombsplash | Game-action | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Kind of a reverse-Kaboom! Splash water up at bombs before time runs out. |
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Balloon Pop! | Game-sports | 1987 | Finished | BASIC | A carnival-style game |
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Alarm Clock Specials | Utility-Alarmclock | 1994 | Finished | TurboBASIC XL | Another set of screensaver-like screens that act as an alarm clock. |
| Water Balloons | Game-sports | 1987 | Finished | BASIC | 2-player water balloon-throwing game | |
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21 Blackjack | Game-cards | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | 1- to 4-player Blackjack |
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Asteroid Belt | Game-action | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Fly your ship across the screen, avoiding obstacles |
| The Countries of Europe Test | Game-edu | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | A “countries and capitols” quiz | |
| Sky Diver | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Clone of “Sky Diving” from the Atari 2600 | |
| Slot Machine | Game-cards | 1988 | Finished | BASIC | Another slot machine game | |
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Connect 4 | Game-board | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Connect 4 game |
| Ice Hockey | Game-sports | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | One-on-one ice hockey game | |
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Cooltris | Game-tetris | 1993 | Finished | Action! | Tetris clone |
| Geometric Drawing Language | language | 1990 | Finished | BASIC | Very simple interpreted graphics-based language | |
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Elevator | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Run back and forth across floors, avoiding being hit by elevators. |
| Fireworks | demo | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Simple fireworks demo | |
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Crown Quest | Game-action | 1987 | Finished | BASIC | Clone of Dragonfire for the Atari 2600 |
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Dropper | Game-action | 1989 | Finished | BASIC | Catch falling happy faces |
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Donuts | Game-action | 1988 | Finished, but barely playable | BASIC | Collect the white donuts, avoid the black ones |
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Attractive Alarm | Utility-Alarmclock | 1992? | Finished, but parts missing | TurboBASIC XL | Screensaver/clock/alarm |
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Doctor Atari | Game-puzzle | 1994 | Finished? But unplayably slow | TurboBASIC XL | Dr. Mario clone |
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Tetris 2 | Game-tetris | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Yet another Tetris |
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Workout | utility | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | Exercise trainer |
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Way-2-type | Game-edu | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | A typing tutor |
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The Last Legend | Game-jumprun | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Jump on platforms; no enemies, except eyes in the walls that you shoot. Press Space to jump |
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The Lost Valleys of Zebos | Game-rpg | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Zelda clone |
| Brick Blaster | Game-breakout | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | A breakout clone. Use paddle. | |
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Windows 0.0 | experiment | 1991 | Unfinished | TurboBASIC XL | A text-mode-based windowing system |
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Super 3D Golf | Game-sports | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | A very lame golf game with a “3D” view (sometimes) |
| Grenades | Game-rungun | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | Collect bags of money; use grenades to blow holes in fences and walls to progress through the screens | |
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Think Tank | Game-board | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | Unfinished “program your tanks” game |
| Maze 3D | Game-misc | 1989? | Unfinished | BASIC | A 3D maze | |
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Telemelec | Game-action | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | Inspired after seeing Gauntlet for the first time, this is a horrible attempt at a clone. |
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Super Mario Bros | Game-jumprun | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | A terrible and misinformed Super Mario Bros clone |
| Maze | Game-misc | 1989? | Unfinished | BASIC | A 2D maze | |
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Super Mario | Game-jumprun | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Another Super Mario Bros attempt |
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Star Wars | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Missile defense game |
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Pond Frog | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Frog catching flies |
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Diamond Quest | Game-rpg | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Unfinished top-down RPG |
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Invasion Vietnam | Game-rungun | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Run-n-gun game |
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Count Duckula | Game-jumprun | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | A feeble attempt to make a game based off one of my favorite cartoons, Count Duckula (from the UK) |
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Jinx | Game-jumprun | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | A strange jump-n-walk game, slightly inspired by Super Mario Bros. 2 |
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Castle | Game-jumprun | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | Run, jump, and climb stairs in a spooky mansion |
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Dungeon of Death | Game-rpg | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | Unfinished adventure game |
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Golf | Game-sports | 1987 | Unfinished | BASIC | Top-down, tile-based golf game. |
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Forest Escape | Game-action | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | |
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Fire Copter | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Save people from a burning highrise, and put out the fire. |
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Gdesk | utility | 1992 | Unfinished | Action! | GUI SDK |
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Ghost Chase | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Run around a graveyard avoiding a ghost until you have a heart attack |
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Marooned | Game-jumprun | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Wander around an island, collecting gold |
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Card Maker | utility | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | Greeting card maker |
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Plaxtriss | Game-tetris | 1991-1996 | Unfinished | TurboBASIC XL | Tetris clone |
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Galactic Avengers | Game-shmup | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | A terrible Galaxian clone |
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Pop-Up! | experiment | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | Some mouse pointer and text-mode windowing routines for BASIC |
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Atariserv Circus | Game-breakout | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | A terrible Circus Atari clone |
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Plane Fight | Game-shmup | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | A side-view game where you fly a plane in loop-the-loops and shoot at boats in the water. |
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Axis 2 | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Sequel to Axis, slide around an isometric grid without falling off |
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Maze of Secrets | Game-misc | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | |
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Breaktris | Game-breakout | 1992 | Unfinished | TurboBASIC XL | Play Breakout, then switch to Tetris when you drop the ball |
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Boxing | Game-sports | 1988 | Unfinished | BASIC | A Punch Out clone |
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Secratary | Game-misc | 1990 | Unfinished | BASIC | Kind of like Tapper, but you're a secretary answering phones |
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Oil Hunt | Game-action | 1989 | Unfinished | BASIC | Similar to Aardvark, dig around underground collecting dots of, uh, oil. |
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R-LEDS | experiment | 1991 | Unfinished (proof of concept) | BASIC | Proof-of-concept attempts for a shoot 'em up game |
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