Computer Game Books

I've long been wanting to devote some space on this site to a different type of game book. In the late seventies through the eighties, there were many books filled with computer program listings to type in and play. I spent a lot of time with these, and I still have a great affection for them even though the Internet age has made the once-acceptable idea of a computer user typing in code just to play a game seem rather bizarre. I still think it's a nice hobby, though!

One of these days, I may try to create a bibliography of these games. For now, though, I'm just putting this page in as a placeholder and to link to my web-based modernizations of some classic games from this period.

Game Conversions

BASIC Computer Games by David H. Ahl More BASIC Computer Games by David H. Ahl

Links

Here are some other sites with more information on the old type-in books. Thanks to members of the gamebooks mailing list for pointing some of these out.

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