HP-85 Games Pac
Moby ID: 217570
Description
HP-85 Games Pac is a compilation of 19 programs on tape with accompanying documentation:
- Blackjack - A typical implementation of the casino card game for one or more players.
- Slot Machine - A one armed bandit simulation for one player.
- Poker Solitaire - A poker variant that's played against the computer where each hand is worth points.
- Reversi - A computer implementation of the board game in which players try to conquer as much of the board as possible by converting enclosed pieces.
- Gomoku - An implementation of the Japanese "five in a row" game.
- Cribbage - A computer implementation of the card game with a unique scoring board.
- Wari - An old African game in which beads are redistributed between bins.
- Sea Skirmish - A timing game in which one player controls a plane and must sink a ship and the other tries to shoot down the plane.
- Blockade - A light cycle game in which players must try to enclose each other.
- Race Track - A turn-based racing game played on a single-screen randomly generated track. Players input their acceleration and steering direction.
- Lander - A planet/moon landing simulation.
- Race - A real-time racing game.
- Hangman - A word guessing game.
- Hunt the Wumpus - The player goes hunting for the Wumpus in a grid of 20 randomized rooms. The player must shoot the Wumpus without going into the same room.
- King - An economic simulation in which the player must plant, harvest and feed the population. As well as fight pollution and build industry.
- Nim - A simple game played against the computer where the object is to be the last to be able to take an object from a collection of piles.
- Maze Generator - Not a computer game, but generates a maze that can be printed and solved on paper.
- Game of Life - A simulation of Conway's Game of Life.
- Birthday Plot - Not a game, but a random computer art generator.
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- Game of Life versions
- Genre: Board game - Five in a Row / Gomoku Narabe
- Genre: Board game - Mancala
- Genre: Board game - Reversi / Othello
- Genre: Card / Tile game - Blackjack
- Genre: Card / Tile game - Cribbage
- Genre: Card / Tile game - Poker
- Genre: Casino game - Slot machine
- Genre: Light cycle
- Genre: Paper-and-pencil game - Racetrack
- Genre: Word / Number puzzle - Hangman
- Hunt the Wumpus variants
- Lunar Lander variants
- Nim variants
- The Sumer Game variants
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Game added by vedder.
Game added February 15, 2024. Last modified February 15, 2024.