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From: din@farmer.cis.upenn.edu (Clarence Din)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Computer implementation of card gam
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Date: 10 Oct 89 17:33:18 GMT
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In article <82400045@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>20 questions (guess a random number) is the first game I ever
>implemented, as a 14-year old in 1976, on my own with just a (TUTOR)
>language manual.  I was ecstatic.  You would not believe how much fun
>it was to play this stupid game.  It is much simpler than blackjack.
>
>Other fun games that high school kids might enjoy writing: STAR TREK
>(Only 80 lines of BASIC), blackjack, poker, nimh, a typing speed test
>(with a record system so you can race your friends), a perfect maze
>generator (a perfect maze has just one path between any two points)
>
>Today's students will probably finish the games, yawn, and then head
>down to the video parlor to play 3-D space simulation *sigh*.

I remember these games!  When I was starting my programming
adventures, I enjoyed these games, too.  I wrote more
arcade type games for my Commodore 64, VIC 20, and Apple,
though.  I have a Pengo game published in June 1985's
Compute's Gazette and I've written versions of Q-Bert,
Dam Breaker, Super Breakout, karate games, Robots, driving
games, skiing games (3D!!!) and lots more.

- Clarence

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