Astro-64

Moby ID: 134925

Released: 1978 on Mainframe
Credits: 1 person

Moby Score: n/a

Genre: Simulation
Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Text-based / Spreadsheet
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Chess
Interface: Text parser

Business Model: Freeware / Free-to-play / Public Domain
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Teletype/Teleprinter
Multiplayer Options: PBM (Play-by-mail)
Number of Offline Players: 8+ Players

Description

Astro-64 is a Romanian chess program that ran on a Felix C-256 mainframe. It's mostly known for a match it played against newspaper readers. each week readers could propose a new move and the computer would generate a counter move that would go into print the next week.

Credits (Mainframe version)

Written by

Viorel Darie

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MobyGames ID: 134925

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Game added by vedder.

Game added September 20, 2019. Last modified February 22, 2023.