Computer Games for Businesses, Schools and Homes

Computer Games for Businesses, Schools and Homes is a book containing 27 type-in games and other entertainment listings in 8K DEC BASIC. It comes with the following games:

• Basket - A textual basketball game for two players. The offensive player has 10 options and the moving player has three options each turn.
• Blackjack - A version of the casino card game where the goal is to get a card value as close to 21 without going over.
• Boggle - A version of the code breaking game Mastermind.
• Bullet - A game of Russian roulette.
• Dogs - A betting game revolving around dog racing.
• Escape - A tactical top-down game in which you try to evade enemies and lure them into mines.
• Fish - A variant of the children's card game Go Fish.
• Golf - A text-based golf game with 18 holes.
• Gunner - An artillery game.
• Horse - A luck-based dice game around the theme of horses.
• Jackpot - A simulation of a one-armed-bandit slot machine.
• Kismet - A version of the dice game Yahtzee.
• Notone - A dice game in which the player scores the points on a pair of die thrown each time, but loses everything from the current round when repeating the first roll.
• Poker - A draw poker card game.
• Roll On - A dice game in which the player must eliminate a set of numbers and loses when running out of valid options.
• Skeedoodle - A calculation game played against the computer. Certain numbers score points and the player and computer take turns giving a number, but their number needs to derive from the previous number and cannot have been said before.
• Star Trek - A simulation of a battle between the starship Enterprise and a Klingon ship.
• Stock - A game about buying and selling stocks.
• Tennis - A text-based tennis game. Each turn the player must give their placement and shot type.
• Tic-Tac-Toe - The classic game of three-in-a-row.

The following non-games are also included:

• Biorhythm - A pseudo-scientific tool to see your biorhythms graphed out.
• Compat - Another pseudo-scientific tool related to biorhythms.
• Date - A calculation tool to find out the day of the week for any given date.
• Easter - Another calculation tool, but this time for what date Easter falls.
• Poem - Computer generated poetry using player input.
• Psycho - A psychological test.
• Taplab - Print text to a paper tape.