Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent aims to provide just that, dispensing with the problems of computer AI and instead serving up a collection of a dozen low-bandwidth mini-games designed for competitive two-player challenge, some turn-based, some simultaneously, through direct computer connection via modem. Its ANSI textmode graphical display allows low latency through the internal terminal software (which also permits during-play chat and taunting) even on the relatively slow modems of its era, the late '80s.
The mini-games included in version 1.9 were: SnakePit*, a game in the Nibbles vein;
- CornerStone;
- Quinte (or, for those of you with poor imaginations, "Connect 5" on a 19x19 grid);
- ArmyAnts;
- Checkers, as per the board game classic;
- Backgammon, a parlour staple;
- MissileStrike;
- LazerMaze;
- and CannonBall Express;
Three additional games were added as of version 2.0: CaveIn*;
- TreasureQuest;
- and Miniature Golf.
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Game added by Pseudo_Intellectual.
Game added November 17, 2006. Last modified March 9, 2023.