Mastodawn

🐴🤖 In the year 2025, someone actually thought it was a good idea to resurrect a BASIC game where you spend your time typing commands to catch a digital horse that can't even kick you in real life. 🦄💻 Apparently, #nostalgia now means glorifying the days when games were essentially text-driven marathons of tedium. 🕹️📜
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Corral.BAS

Cowboy themed game from David Ahl's 1978 book "More BASIC Computer Games" converted and refactored into a browser-playable version.

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Hacker News Apr 22, 2025

101 Basic Computer Games

https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games

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GitHub - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games: Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is not the same as BASIC Computer Games.

Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games. - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games

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Corral.BAS

GitHub - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games: Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is *not* the same as BASIC Computer Games.

GitHub - maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games: Type-in programs from the original 101 BASIC Computer Games, in their original DEC and Dartmouth dialects. No, this is not the same as BASIC Computer Games.