Hangman
- Hangman (1970 on Mainframe)
- Hangman (1974 on Terminal)
- Hangman (1975 on Wang 2200)
- Hangman (1975 on Wang 2200)
- Hangman (1976 on Motorola 6800)
- Hangman (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
- Hangman (1978 on Compucolor II)
- Hangman (1978 on Cybervision)
- Hangman (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
- Hangman (1978 on Intel 8080, Heath/Zenith H8/H89)
- Hangman (1979 on Apple II)
- Hangman (1979 on TI Programmable Calculator)
- Hangman (1979 on TI Programmable Calculator)
- Hangman (1979 on TRS-80)
- Hangman (1979 on Commodore PET/CBM)
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Hangman
(1979 on
TI-99/4A)
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Hangman
(1980 on
Commodore PET/CBM)
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Hangman
(1980 on
Commodore PET/CBM)
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Hangman
(1980 on
Commodore PET/CBM)
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Hangman
(1980 on
Commodore PET/CBM)
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Hangman
(1982 on
ZX81)
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Hangman
(1982 on
TRS-80 CoCo)
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Hangman
(1983 on
Mainframe)
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Hangman
(1984 on
VIC-20)
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Hangman
(1992 on
DOS)
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Hangman
(2005 on
Browser)
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Hangman
(2005 on
DOS)
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Hangman is an electronic version of the game hangman! Your goal is to figure out a word that the computer has generated by guessing one letter at a time. Guess a correct letter, and it will appear on the screen in the proper location, but if you guess a letter that isn't in the word then you are one step closer to being hung. Guess eleven incorrect letters, and the game is over. A point is earned each time a word is completed. Several difficulty settings are included which affect the number of letters in the words. The game can be played by one or two players, and in the two player version the words can optionally be created by one of the players instead of the computer.
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Average score: 48% (based on 5 ratings)
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Average score: 1.7 out of 5 (based on 14 ratings with 1 reviews)
The Good
Is that picture a monkey?
The Bad
The words were not challenging to me or my 6-year old. Is that picture a monkey?
The Bottom Line
Atari brings to your television the excitement of hangman - that childhood game where you are provided with blanks and must guess correct letters in the word lest your opponent draw a hanging man.
Only the action here is considerably less than in real life. For starters, the words max out at 6 letters and you get 11 incorrect answers. Even the "high school" level words are pretty easy to get within those limitations. Second, the words are not especially difficult - the example provided in the manual "luxury" takes you pretty much to the top of the scale. (As a positive, unlike real life hangman, all the words appear to be real words and correctly spelled.) Finally, really? - a monkey holding a bar? What does that even have to do with the title? I think we can all repress the horrific images of a real-life hanging sufficiently to play a child's game we've all played since early grade school. We don't need a gruesome anatomically correct hanging, but a stickman paying with his life for poor letter guessing is the essence and the excitement of this game.
Atari 2600 · by eratik (105) · 2012
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Game added November 17, 2003. Last modified March 12, 2024.