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Conway's Game of Life

Moby ID: 184432
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Released
February 1979 on KIM-1
Credits
6 people
Publishers
Moby Score
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Collected By
1 players
Genre
Simulation
Perspective
Top-down
Visual
Fixed / flip-screen
Business Model
Commercial
Media Type
Type-in
Input Devices Supported/Optional
Keyboard
Number of Offline Players
1 Player
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Description

Conway's Game of Life is an implementation of the Game of Life for the KIM-1 with a Xitex Video Board. The player can draw patterns and watch how they evolve based on the simple rules of Conway's Game of Life.

  • Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
  • Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
  • Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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Credits (KIM-1 version)

6 People (3 developers, 3 thanks)

By
"Recreational Mathematic" section in the Scientific American - Oct. Nov., 1970
Page 5:5 of the June-July issue of MICRO, 1978
Game of LIFE invented by
Dec 1978 issue of BYTE article on page 54 by
Spaceman life form first tried by

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Game added by vedder.

Game added May 17, 2022. Last modified March 9, 2023.