Checkers

Moby ID: 167163

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Released: 1978 on Compucolor II
Credits: 4 people

Moby Score: n/a

Genre: Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Pacing: Turn-based
Gameplay: Board game
Interface: Text parser

Business Model: Commercial
Media Type: 5.25" Floppy Disk
Input Devices Supported/Optional: Keyboard
Number of Players Supported: 1 Player

See Also

Checkers (1961 on Mainframe)
Checkers (1973 on Mainframe, 1976 on Intel 8080, Zilog Z80)
Checkers (1974 on Terminal)
Checkers (1978 on TRS-80)
Checkers (1978 on VideoBrain)
Checkers (1978 on TI Programmable Calculator)
Checkers (1978 on TRS-80)
Checkers (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Checkers (1979 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Checkers (1979 on TRS-80)
Checkers (1980 on Atari 2600, 2010 on Windows, Xbox 360)
Checkers (1980 on Intellivision)
Checkers (1981 on TRS-80)
Checkers (1984 on Commodore 64)
Checkers (1986 on TRS-80 CoCo)
Checkers (1989 on DOS)
Checkers (1990 on Windows 3.x)
Checkers (1998 on Browser)
Checkers (2001 on Windows)
Checkers (2017 on iPhone, Android, iPad)
Checkers (2020 on Nintendo Switch)

Description

Checkers is board game conversion. It originally appeared in BASIC Computer Games. The player plays against the computer. Both move their pieces across the board and can capture enemy pieces by jumping over them. Pieces can be crowned when they reach the far side of the board. Crowed pieces can move backwards and can move more than a single tile.

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Genre: Board game - Checkers / Draughts

Credits (Compucolor II version)

4 People

The original version of the program by	Alan J. Segal
Bugfix by	Steve North
Modifications contributed by	Lawrence McNeal
Graphics by	David B. Suits

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MobyGames ID: 167163

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Game added by vedder.

Game added July 12, 2021. Last modified February 22, 2023.