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Checkers

Bally Astrocade type-in published 45 years ago by Fabris, Robert

Not listed in MAME yet

Checkers © 1979 Fabris, Robert [San Jose, CA, USA]

There is an amazing amount of activity in this game, that is comparable to the $75 'Checker Challenger'. Before the machine makes a move, it goes through some steps, and numbers appear to tell you where it is. The code for the steps is:

1. The computer has found that it can jump one of your men.
2. Checking to see it you can jump it.
3. Is a corner open?
4. Is there an open move?
5 and 6. Have the computer's men moving either to get kinged or toward and player's man left
7. Any move an unkinged computer's piece can make
8. Any move

To indicate a double jump, enter the two numbers (of the square you go through and the landing square) as if it were a single jump only.

TRIVIA

Published as a type-in program in the Arcadian newsletter by Robert Fabris:
ARCADIAN, 1, no. 6 (May 4, 1979): 41-42 (Original Program Listing)
ARCADIAN, 1, no. 7 (June 15, 1979): 47 (Program Fix)
ARCADIAN, 1, no. 10 (Sept. 31, 1979): 77 (Program Modification)
ARCADIAN, 1, no. 11 (Oct. 31, 1979): 90 (Program Fix)
ARCADIAN, 2, no. 1 (Nov. 29, 1979): 4 (Program Fix)

Later put on tape by Ken Lill.

STAFF

Programmer: John Collins

SOURCES

Game's Listing.