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This list contains video games created for the monochrome TRS-80 computers.
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This list contains video games created for the monochrome TRS-80 computers.
| Name | Year | Developer | Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Adventure Series [1] [2] | 1981 | Scott Adams | Adventure International | |
| Airmail Pilot [3] [4] | 1979 | Instant Software | ||
| Android Nim [5] [6] | 1978 | Leo Christopherson | 80-NW Publishing Co. | BASIC/ML hybrid |
| Ants!!! [7] [8] | 1979 | Brian Rotolante [9] | Synergistic Solar | Play: one queen ant presides over the top of the board while her opponent queen rests at the bottom, and each queen gets to produce offspring each turn to fight in the center of the screen. [10] |
| Apple Panic [11] [12] | 1982 | Yves Lempereur | Funsoft | clone |
| Armored Patrol [13] [14] | 1981 | Wayne Westmoreland, Terry Gilman | Adventure International | Battlezone clone |
| Asylum [15] [16] | 1981 | Frank Corr Jr., William Denman [17] | Med Systems | |
| Asteroid [18] [19] | 1980 | Michael Wall | Instant Software | |
| Attack Force [20] [21] | 1980 | Bill Hogue, Jeff Konyu | Big Five Software | Targ clone |
| Bedlam | 1982 | |||
| Blockade | Personal Software | |||
| Bowling | Tandy Corporation | |||
| BREAKFORTH | a type-in Breakout clone written in FORTH [22] | |||
| Bugs From Outer Space | from a six-part series of articles in 80 Micro by Roger Smith | |||
| Camel | ||||
| Castle Zhagwhar | Keith Schuler | |||
| Clash | Joust clone | |||
| Colossal Cave Adventure | distributed by Microsoft | |||
| Conquest of Chesterwoode | ||||
| Cosmic Fighter | Big Five Software | Astro Fighter clone | ||
| Cosmic Invaders | Space Invaders clone | |||
| Cuthbert Goes Walkabout | ||||
| Cyborg | Bill Dunlevy and Douglas Frayer | distributed by Computer Shack | ||
| Dancing Demon | Leo Christopherson | BASIC/ML hybrid | ||
| The Dancing Fool | ||||
| The Datestones of Ryn | ||||
| Death Maze 5000 | ||||
| Death Trap! | Dick Smith Electronics | |||
| Defense Command | Big Five Software | non-scrolling clone of Defender | ||
| Demon Seed | ||||
| Donkey Kong clone | ||||
| Dungeon Explorer | 1980 | Software Exchange | "single player game of adventure and combat based on Dungeons and Dragons" [23] | |
| Eliminator | 1981 | Adventure International | Defender clone | |
| Eliza | Tandy Corporation | psychiatrist Q&A simulation | ||
| Empire | CLOAD | based on Hamurabi and Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio | ||
| Empire: Wargame of the Century | port in Z80 assembly, based on FORTRAN source | |||
| Fasteroids (renamed later to Planetoids) [24] | 1981 | Greg Hassett | Adventureworld / Adventure International | |
| Football Manager | Addictive Games | |||
| Formula One | Tandy Corporation | |||
| Frogger (clone) | ||||
| Flying Saucers | ||||
| Galactic Empire | The Software Exchange | |||
| Galaxy Invasion | Big Five Software | Galaxian clone | ||
| Gobbleman | Beam Software | |||
| Haunted House | Tandy Corporation | |||
| Hellfire Warrior | 1980 | Automated Simulations | Dungeon crawl | |
| Hyper-Wurm | a Snake game | |||
| Invaders! | Tandy Corporation | Space Invaders clone | ||
| Invasion Force | Tandy Corporation | |||
| Kill-A-Pede | Jim Baker and Fred Mayea | Centipede clone | ||
| Lost Colony | Acorn Software | |||
| Magic Carpet | ||||
| Meteor Mission II | Big Five Software | Lunar Rescue clone | ||
| Microchess 1.5 | Peter R. Jennings | |||
| Midway Campaign | Avalon Hill Software | |||
| Module Man | ||||
| Monty Plays Monopoly | ||||
| Motorcycle Jump | ||||
| Mystery Fun House | Scott Adams | Adventure International | Text Based Adventure game. | |
| NukeWar | superpower nuclear missile simulation | |||
| Olympic Decathlon | arcade simulation of the Olympic Games decathlon event | |||
| Othello | ||||
| Outhouse | ||||
| Paint | ||||
| Penetrator | Beam Software | |||
| Planet Miners | Avalon Hill Software | |||
| Poker Pete | Quality Software | |||
| Pong | Instant Software | |||
| Pork Barrel | Ramware | |||
| Pyramid 2000 | Tandy Corporation | Colossal Cave clone | ||
| Pinball | 1980 | |||
| Raaka-Tu | ||||
| Reign of the Red Dragon | Adventure International | |||
| Rear Guard | ||||
| Robot Attack | Big Five Software | Berzerk clone | ||
| Rogue | ||||
| Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio | ||||
| Scarfman | Pac-Man clone | |||
| Sea Dragon | ||||
| Solar Search | Colorado Software Associates | |||
| Space Ace 21 | ||||
| Space Escort | ||||
| Space Intruders | Adventure International | |||
| Space Warp | ASCII game loosely based on Star Trek | |||
| Starfighter | Adventure International | |||
| Starquest: Rescue at Rigel | Automated Simulations | |||
| Star Trek | Adventure International | |||
| Stellar Escort | Big Five Software | |||
| Stellar Life Line | SRB Software | |||
| Super Maze | Quality Software | |||
| Super Nova | Big Five Software | Asteroids clone | ||
| Supreme Ruler | ||||
| T80-FS1 Flight Simulator | Sublogic | |||
| Taipan! | ||||
| Temple of Apshai | ||||
| Time Bandit | ||||
| Time Traveler | 1980 | Krell Software | ||
| Trade Wars | ||||
| Trucker | ||||
| Volcano Hunter | 1984 | David Smith | Lap Video Entertainment | Side view arcade game with over 200 screen. |
| Voyage of the Valkyrie | Leo Christoperson | BASIC/ML hybrid | ||
| Weerd! | Big Five Software | |||
| Worg | Simutek Software | |||
| Xenos | ||||
| Zaxxon | ||||
| Zork | ||||
| Zossed in Space |
Scott Adams is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, and video game designer. He co-founded, with ex-wife Alexis, Adventure International in 1979. The company developed and published video games for home computers. The cornerstone products of Adventure International in its early years were the Adventure series of text adventures written by Adams.
Temple of Apshai is a dungeon crawl role-playing video game developed and published by Automated Simulations in 1979. Originating on the TRS-80 and Commodore PET, it was followed by several updated versions for other computers between 1980 and 1986.
1980 saw the release of a number of games with influential concepts, including Pac-Man, Battlezone, Crazy Climber, Mystery House, Missile Command, Phoenix, Rally-X, Space Panic, Stratovox, Zork, Adventure, and Olympic Decathlon. The year's highest-grossing video game was Namco's arcade game Pac-Man, while the best-selling home system was Nintendo's Game & Watch. The Atari VCS also grew in popularity with a port of Space Invaders and support from new third-party developer Activision.
Sea Dragon is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the TRS-80 computer, written by Wayne Westmoreland and Terry Gilman, and released in 1982 by Adventure International. The gameplay is similar to the Scramble arcade game, but underwater. It was ported to the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, TRS-80 Color Computer, and DOS.
Apple Panic is a game for the Apple II programmed by Ben Serki and published by Broderbund Software in 1981. Apple Panic is an unauthorized version of the 1980 arcade game Space Panic, the first game with ladders and platforms. While the arcade original remained obscure, Apple Panic became a top seller for home computers. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, IBM PC, and TRS-80.
The Dallas Quest is a graphic adventure game based on the soap opera Dallas. The game was programmed by James Garon for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Tandy Corporation in 1984. It was the second game in the "Animated Adventure" series, following The Sands of Egypt, and uses the same split-screen display. Datasoft published versions for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64 in the same year.
SoftSide is a defunct computer magazine, begun in October 1978 by Roger Robitaille and published by SoftSide Publications of Milford, New Hampshire.
Android Nim is a version of the mathematical strategy game Nim programmed by Leo Christopherson for the TRS-80 computer in 1978. A version for the Commodore PET by Don Dennis was released July 1979. Android Nim features real-time animation of the androids on a TRS-80.
Mission Asteroid is a graphic adventure game for the Apple II written by Ken and Roberta Williams and released in 1980 by On-Line Systems. It was later ported to the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64.
Olympic Decathlon is a sports video game written by Timothy W. Smith for the TRS-80 and published in 1980 by Microsoft. In the game, the player competes in ten track and field events. The gold medalist for decathlon in the Montreal 1976 Summer Olympics, Caitlyn Jenner, is a character. It was ported to the Apple II in 1981. The 1982 version for the IBM PC was renamed Microsoft Decathlon.
Attack Force is a 1980 video game developed by Big Five Software for the TRS-80 16K. It was written by Big Five co-founders Bill Hogue and Jeff Konyu. Hogue later wrote Miner 2049'er. Attack Force is based on Exidy's 1980 Targ arcade game.
Voyage of the Valkyrie is a video game for the TRS-80 and Apple II published in 1981 by Advanced Operating Systems. It was written by Leo Christopherson.
Missile Attack is a clone of Atari, Inc.'s Missile Command arcade game. It was developed by Cornsoft Group and published in 1980 by Adventure International for the TRS-80 and Apple II.
Instant Software was a company that produced game, utility, and education software in the late 1970s and early 1980s primarily for the TRS-80 line of home computers. Instant Software was a subsidiary of Kilobaud Microcomputing, headquartered in Peterborough, New Hampshire and run by Wayne Green.
The Eliminator is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game written by Terry Gilman and Wayne Westmoreland for the TRS-80 and published by Adventure International in 1981. It was ported to the Atari 8-bit family and Apple II. The Eliminator is a clone of the Defender arcade game.
Voyager I: Sabotage of the Robot Ship is a computer game designed and programmed by William D. Volk, and published by the Microcomputer Games division of Avalon Hill. It was originally released for the Apple II in 1981, with later versions for the Atari 8-bit family, TRS-80 Color Computer, TRS-80, and Commodore PET.
Planetoids is a clone of Atari, Inc.'s Asteroids arcade game published by Adventure International for the Apple II in 1980 and TRS-80 in 1981. Each was originally an independently sold game, neither of which was titled Planetoids. The Apple II version, written by Marc Goodman, was published as Asteroid. The TRS-80 game was written by Greg Hassett as Fasteroids by Adventure Works. Fasteroids was still sold by Adventure Works at the same time Planetoids was available through Adventure International. The TRS-80 version includes features not present on the Apple II or arcade original.
Demon Seed is a fixed shooter written by Jeffrey Sorensen and Philip MacKenzie for the TRS-80 and published in 1982 by Trend Software. The same programmers developed the TRS-80 Color Computer version published in 1983 by Computer Shack. Demon Seed is a clone of the 1980 arcade game Phoenix.
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