Boat

Moby ID: 105608

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Released: 1973 on Mainframe
Credits: 1 person

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 2 players

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Side view
Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Interface: Text parser
Vehicular: Naval / watercraft

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard, Teletype/Teleprinter
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

Included in

101 BASIC Computer Games (1973)

Description

Boat places the player in a submarine. The goal is to destroy a gun boat controlled by the computer. Each turn the player can fire at the boat. The player must hit vulnerable parts of the boat twice, or once and two additional hits to win. Once the player misses the gun boat will fire back and try to destroy the player's submarine. After each hit a text-mode graphic of the gunboat is shown.

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Theme: Submarine

Credits (Mainframe version)

To the best of our knowledge, we think BOAT was originally written by

A student at the University of Georgia Athens GA

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MobyGames ID: 105608

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Game added by vedder.

Game added March 19, 2018. Last modified September 6, 2024.