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BASIC Computer Games: Microcomputer Edition (Paperback)

by David H. Ahl (Author)
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  • Paperback: 188 pages
  • Publisher: Workman Pub Co; Microcomputer ed edition (November 1978)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0894800523
  • ISBN-13: 978-0894800528
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,738 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The dawn of a new era, basic games for Computers., August 28, 1998
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This was the beginning for many people to their love affair with computers. Many simple games that you program yourself in Basic, one of the first computer languages. Not only could you learn simple progamming form this book, but have something tangible to show for it! Easy to use with set-by-step instructions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The classic of the classics, June 17, 2002
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Back in the Golden Age of Microcomputing (roughly from '75 to '89 or so) the way people shared programs wasn't through the internet. Instead, it was through typing in program listings in the backs of magazines. "Compute!'s Gazette" was my means of getting software.

When I recently came across a copy of Ahl's "Basic Computer Games" I had to snatch it up immediately. There, contained in 101 program listings are games of varying degrees of quality, but many the games from that Golden Age are in there. Especially that Star Trek(TM) game. [Star Trek is a trademark of the Paramount Pictures Corporation]

Many of the games are just plain silly. Who knows why Ahl included them? Bunny, Poetry, Combat, just to name a few. But there are enough good ones in there to elicit a wave of nostalgia in those of us who lived through (and gamed through) those golden times.

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