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Category: Mainframe

Chris Gaylo develops a text-based, single-player shootout with a wild west theme at the Syosset High School in New York. Players have 4 rounds in their guns and are standing 100 paces from a crook named Black Bart. Player and computer take turns shooting, standing still, hiding, or advancing 1 to 10 steps, which increases both shooters’ chances to hit their opponent.

Printing out the BASIC source code of this early computer game takes up only 4 pages, dictated by the low memory of the computer it ran on. You can see scans of the original source code here.

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