List of TRS-80 games
Encyclopedia
Model I and III
- The Adventure Series by Scott AdamsScott Adams (game designer)Scott Adams is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers....
- Airmail Pilot (Instant Software)
- Android NimAndroid NimAndroid Nim is a game written by Leo Christopherson for the TRS-80 computer in 1978 and published by SoftSide. A version for the Commodore PET by Don Dennis was released July 1979. A new version rewritten for Microsoft Windows was released in 2005....
(Leo Christoperson, BASIC/ML hybrid) - Apple PanicApple PanicApple Panic is a 1981 platform game for the Apple II programmed by Ben Serki of Brøderbund Software. Apple Panic was inspired by Space Panic.-Description:...
(clone by Funsoft) - Armored Patrol (Adventure International) (Battlezone clone)
- Asylum (Med Systems)
- Atom (game)Atom (game)Atom is a home computer game published by Tandy in 1983 for the TRS-80. The game educates the player about the first few elements of the periodic table .-Gameplay:...
- Attack Force (Big Five Software) (TargTarg (video game)-Description:The locale is described by the game cabinet as "The Crystal City": it is a simple 9x9 grid of roads demarcated by rectangular buildings. The player, piloting the Wummel, which looks like a small green car, maneuvers through the maze trying to shoot enemies and avoid collisions. Most...
clone) - Bedlam
- Blockade (Personal Software)
- BowlingBowling (video game)Bowling is a video game for the Atari 2600 designed by Atari programmer Larry Kaplan; published by Atari. The game is based on the game of bowling, playable by one player or two players alternating.In all six variations, games last for 10 frames, or turns...
(Tandy Corporation) - Bugs From Outer Space (from a six-part series of articles in 80 Micro by Roger Smith)
- Camel
- Castle ZhagwharCastle ZhagwharCastle Zhagwhar is a two-dimensional platform game for the TRS-80 Color Computer. It is created by Keith Schuler in 1987 and published in 1989 by The Rainbow....
(Created by Keith Schuler) - Clowns and Balloons
- Colossal Cave AdventureColossal Cave AdventureColossal Cave Adventure gave its name to the computer adventure game genre . It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and caving enthusiast who based the layout on part of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky...
(distributed by Microsoft) - Conquest of Chesterwoode
- Cosmic Fighter (Big Five Software) (Astro FighterAstro FighterAstro Fighter is a two-dimensional, space shoot 'em up arcade game released in 1980. It was developed and published by Data East in Japan and was published outside of Japan by Gremlin/Sega.-Plot:...
clone) - Cosmic Invaders (Space InvadersSpace Invadersis an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to...
clone) - Cyborg [ ] By Bill Dunlevy and Douglas Frayer. Distributed by Computer Shack. (1982)
- Dancing Demon (Leo Christoperson, BASIC/ML hybrid)
- The Dancing FoolThe Dancing FoolThe Dancing Fool is a 1932 Fleischer Studios Talkartoon animated short film starring Betty Boop, Bimbo & Koko the Clown.-Synopsis:Bimbo and Koko are sign painter's they have been hired to paint the lettering on the window of Betty Boop's Dancing School"...
- The Datestones of Ryn
- Death Maze 5000
- Death Trap! (Dick Smith Electronics)
- Defense Command (Big Five Software) (non-scrolling clone of Defender)
- Donkey KongDonkey Kong (video game)is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. It is an early example of the platform game genre, as the gameplay focuses on maneuvering the main character across a series of platforms while dodging and jumping over obstacles. In the game, Jumpman must rescue a damsel in distress, Lady, from a...
clone - Eliminator (Defender clone)
- ElizaELIZAELIZA is a computer program and an early example of primitive natural language processing. ELIZA operated by processing users' responses to scripts, the most famous of which was DOCTOR, a simulation of a Rogerian psychotherapist. Using almost no information about human thought or emotion, DOCTOR...
(Tandy Corporation) (psychiatrist Q&A simulation) - EmpireClassic Empire (computer game)Empire is a turn-based wargame with simple rules, conceived by Walter Bright in 1971 based on various war movies and board games, notably Battle of Britain and Risk. In the game, each player starts with one city in an unexplored world, and uses the city to build armies, aircraft, and various...
- Formula One (Tandy Corporation)
- FroggerFroggerFrogger is an arcade game introduced in 1981. It was developed by Konami, and licensed for worldwide distribution by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the game is to direct frogs to their homes one by one. To do this, each frog must avoid cars while crossing a busy road and navigate a river full of...
(clone) - Flying Saucers
- Galaxy Invasion (Big Five Software) (GalaxianGalaxianis an arcade game developed by Namco in 1979. It was published by Namco in Japan and was imported to North America by Midway in 1980. A fixed shooter-style game in which the player controls a spaceship at the bottom of the screen and shoots enemies descending in various directions, it was designed...
clone) - Gobbleman (Beam Software)
- Haunted House (Tandy Corporation)
- Hyper-WurmSnake (video game)Snake is a video game that originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming something of a classic...
a "Snake" game - Invaders! (Tandy Corporation) (Space InvadersSpace Invadersis an arcade video game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado, and released in 1978. It was originally manufactured and sold by Taito in Japan, and was later licensed for production in the United States by the Midway division of Bally. Space Invaders is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to...
clone) - Invasion Force (Tandy Corporation)
- Lost Colony (Acorn Software)
- Magic Carpet
- Meteor Mission IIMeteor Mission IIMeteor Mission II is a clone of the Taito arcade game Lunar Rescue released by Big Five Software for the RadioShack/Tandy TRS-80 home computer ....
(Big Five Software) (Lunar RescueLunar RescueLunar Rescue is an arcade game released by Taito in 1979. It contains elements that resemble both Taito's own Space Invaders as well as Atari's Lunar Lander released that same year....
clone) - Microchess 1.5 - by Peter Jennings (1976) http://www.digibarn.com/collections/games/microchess/index.html http://www.benlo.com/microchess/microchess.html http://www.computerhistory.org/chess/main.php?sec=thm-42f15c9b2be73&sel=thm-42f15cab2be73#
- Midway Campaign (Avalon Hill Software)
- Monty Plays Monopoly
- Motorcycle Jump
- NukeWar (superpower nuclear missile simulation)
- Olympic DecathlonOlympic DecathlonOlympic Decathlon aka Microsoft Decathlon is a computer game where the player participates in a Decathlon....
(arcade simulation of the Olympic GamesOlympic GamesThe Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
decathlon event) - OthelloOthello (video game)Othello is a 1988 video game published by Acclaim Entertainment, made for the Nintendo Entertainment System. An earlier version of the game was released on the Atari 2600 in 1980. Othello is based on the board game Reversi, which was marketed as Othello...
- Outhouse
- Penetrator (Beam Software)
- Poker Pete (Quality Software)
- Poltergeist
- PongPongPong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity...
(Instant Software) (clone) - PooyanPooyanis a classic arcade game manufactured by Stern Electronics under license from Konami in 1982. In it, the player controls "Mama", a pig whose babies have been kidnapped by a group of wolves.- Gameplay :...
- Pyramid 2000Pyramid 2000Pyramid 2000 is an interactive fiction game. The game is an altered version of Colossal Cave that takes advantage of an Egyptian setting.-External links:**...
(Tandy Corporation) (clone of Colossal Cave) - PinballPinball (video game)Pinball is a 1984 arcade game created by Nintendo. The game is designed to simulate a game of pinball. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System later that year. In 1985 it reached North America as one of 18 launch titles. The Nintendo Entertainment System version added an alternating...
- Reign of the Red Dragon (Adventure International - The first of the Demon Venture Series 1982)
- Rear Guard
- Robot Attack (Big Five Software) (BerzerkBerzerkBerzerk is a multi-directional shooter video arcade game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago.-Gameplay:The player controls a green stick-figure, representing a "humanoid." Using a joystick , the player navigates a simple maze filled with many robots, who fire lasers back at the...
clone, first commercial TRS-80 game to feature digitized voice) - RogueRogue (computer game)Rogue is a dungeon crawling video game first developed by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman around 1980. It was a favorite on college Unix systems in the early to mid-1980s, in part due to the procedural generation of game content. Rogue popularized dungeon crawling as a video game trope, leading...
- Santa Paravia en FiumaccioSanta Paravia en FiumaccioSanta Paravia and Fiumaccio is a video game in which each player becomes the ruler of a fledgling Italian city-state around the year 1400. The goal of the game is to become king or queen; to do so the player must manage their city-state so that it may grow....
- Scarf Man (Pac-ManPac-Manis an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
clone) - Sea DragonSea Dragon (computer game)Sea Dragon is a side-scrolling game on the TRS-80 computer, released in 1982 by Adventure International. It was ported to the Apple II, Atari 400/800, and the TRS-80 Color Computer.-Summary:...
- Solar Search (Colorado Software Associates)
- Space Escort
- Space Intruders (Adventure International)
- Space Warp (ASCII game loosely based on Star TrekStar TrekStar Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
) - Starfighter (Adventure International)
- Starquest: Rescue at Rigel (Automated Simulations)
- Star Trek (Adventure International)
- Stellar Escort (Big Five Software)
- Super Maze (Quality Software)
- Super Nova (Big Five Software) (Asteroids clone)
- Supreme Ruler
- T80-FS1 Flight Simulator (subLogic)
- Taipan!Taipan!Taipan! is a turn-based strategy computer game for the Apple II and TRS-80 which was created in 1982. It was created by Art Canfil and the company Mega Micro Computers, and published by Avalanche Productions....
- Temple of ApshaiTemple of ApshaiThe Temple of Apshai is a computer role-playing game from Epyx. The game was first released for the TRS-80 in 1979, then the Apple II and Atari home computers in 1980. In 1983, it was released for the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, and IBM PC compatibles. Even later it was made available with...
- Trade WarsTrade WarsTrade Wars is the title, with some variations in spelling and capitalization, of a series of computer games dating back to the early days of personal computing. Based on influences from Star Trek, Star Wars, and early BBS strategy games, Trade Wars was an early example of the appeal of online games...
- Trucker
- Voyage of the Valkyrie (Leo Christoperson, BASIC/ML hybrid)
- Weerd! (Big Five Software)
- Worg (Simutek Software)
- XenosXenos (Computer Game)Xenos is a 32K Disk adventure game for the TRS-80 Model I/III .Xenos is a 35K Disk adventure game for the TRS-80 Model I/III ....
- ZaxxonZaxxonZaxxon is a 1982 arcade game developed and released by Sega. Some sources claim that Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki also worked on the development of Zaxxon...
(officially licensed version) - ZorkZorkZork was one of the first interactive fiction computer games and an early descendant of Colossal Cave Adventure. The first version of Zork was written in 1977–1979 on a DEC PDP-10 computer by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling, and implemented in the MDL programming language...