The A to Z Book of Computer Games

The A to Z Book of Computer Games is a book containing 26 type-in games written in BASIC, each game is described in detail, including the design process and programming problems to solve if the player were to attempt to write a program themselves. Regardless full source code is given for each game as well.

The games are:

• Abstract: Is a code guessing game, similar to Mastermind. A three-digit code must be guessed. After each guess the computer answers "Astute" for reach correct digit, "Abstract" for three wrong digits, and "Askew" for a digit in the wrong place.
• Bandit: A slot machine simulation.
• Cokes: A number guess game for multiple players. After each guess the bounds within the number lies are made more narrow, based on whether the guess was too high, or too low.
• Dice: A simple dice-throwing game. Each turn the player can roll the dice and add up score until they choose to stop, or the same number is rolled twice in a row and the player loses all points from that turn.
• Elevate: An artillery game.
• Fivecard: A poker game.
• Gunners: A Battleship variant for two players.
• Hotshot: The player must find the computer hidden in the grid.
• Invert: invert sets of numbers until they are ordered correctly.
• Justluck: A dice-betting game.
• Knights: A logical deduction puzzle.
• Lapides: A Nim variant.
• Match: A card version of the dice game.
• Naughts & Crosses: A tic-tac-toe game.
• Othello: A computer version of the board game for two players.
• Par-2: A golfing game for two players.
• Quantal: A puzzle game for two players. Each player has ten switches in a random state. The first player to have all switches in the same state wins.
• Roulette: A computer version of the casino game.
• States: Guess the US state based on a clue.
• Twenty1: A game of blackjack.
• Ultranim: A Nim variant.
• Verboten: A children's game of chance. Players pick a letter of the alphabet to score a point. One letter has been designated as "verboten" and will reset the player's score to zero. Another will double the player's score.
• Wampus: A version of Wumpus.
• Xchange: A sliding puzzle, which can also be played competitively.
• Yat-C: A computer version of Yahtzee.
• Z-End: Another Nim variant.