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| + | Welcome to the '''Programming Games Wiki''', a community site for programming game addicts. In a programming game players write programs to compete against each other. Feel free to add anything on-topic or just chat about the games on the discussion pages.</div> | ||
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| + | <h2 style="margin:4px;padding:4px;background:lightyellow;border:1px solid yellow;">Featured Programming Games</h2> | ||
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| + | RobotWar was the first commercial programming game, originally written by Silas Warner for PLATO. In 1981 RobotWar was published for the Apple II by MUSE Software. | ||
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| + | OMEGA was a commercial game for the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and PC. OMEGA was designed by Stuart Marks and published by Origin Systems in 1989. | ||
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| + | Core War was introduced by A. K. Dewdney in Scientific American. The game Dewdney described has since been extended and implemented on a number of systems. | ||
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| + | Color Robot Battle was a commercial game for the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer, designed and written by Glenn Sogge and Del Ogren. | ||
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| − | * [ | + | <h2 style="margin:4px;padding:4px;background:lightyellow;border:1px solid yellow;">Programming Games Timeline</h2> |
| − | * [ | + | '''1961''' |
| + | * The earlier known programming games is [[Darwin]], played on an IBM 7090 mainframe at Bell Labs. | ||
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| + | '''1968''' | ||
| + | * The earliest reference to [[Core-War|Core War]], 15 years before the version invented by A. K. Dewdney. | ||
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| + | '''1970s''' | ||
| + | * Silas Warner's first version of [[RobotWar]] on the PLATO system. | ||
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| + | '''1980''' | ||
| + | * [[RobotWar]] was released for the Apple II by MUSE Software. | ||
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| + | '''1981''' | ||
| + | * [[Color-Robot-Battle|Color Robot Battle]] was released for the TRS-80 Color Computer. | ||
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| + | '''1982''' | ||
| + | * [[The-Programmable-Cube|The Programmable Cube]] | ||
| + | * [[Rockys-Boots|Rocky's Boots]] | ||
| + | * [[The-Biological-Evolution-Game|The Biological Evolution Game]] | ||
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| + | '''1983''' | ||
| + | * [[Robot]] was released for the Sol-20 computer. | ||
| + | * [[Arena-ZX81|Arena]] was published in the book ''Advanced Programming for the 16K ZX81'' by Mike Costello. | ||
| + | * [[Combots]] | ||
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| + | '''1984''' | ||
| + | * Modern [[Core-War|Core War]] was introduced by A K Dewdney in Scientific American. | ||
| + | * [[DROID]] was developed at Reichhold Chemicals as a teaching aid. | ||
| + | * [[Robot Odyssey]] was release by The Learning Company for the PC, Apple II and TRS-80 Color Computer. | ||
| + | * [[ChipWits]] | ||
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| + | '''1985''' | ||
| + | * [[CROBOTS]] was published as shareware by Tom Poindexter. | ||
| + | * [[ARENA]] was released as shareware by Richard Brown. | ||
| + | * [[Robot-Arena|Robot Arena]] was published for the RM 380Z series of computers by SPA Publishing. | ||
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| + | '''1988''' | ||
| + | * David Malmberg released [[P-Robots]]. | ||
| + | * [[Warrior-Cycles|Warrior Cycles]] | ||
| + | * [[Xtank]] was published by Terry Donahue. | ||
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| + | '''1989''' | ||
| + | * [[OMEGA]] | ||
| + | * [[Tanx]] | ||
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| + | '''1990''' | ||
| + | * [[Jintori]] | ||
| + | * [[RoboWar]] | ||
| + | * [[Struggle]] | ||
| + | * [[Warbots]] | ||
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| + | '''1991''' | ||
| + | * [[T-Robots]] | ||
| + | * [[Robot Battle]] | ||
| + | * [[Battle-Droids|Battle Droids]] | ||
| + | * [[bot|'bot]] | ||
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| + | '''1992''' | ||
| + | * [[PCRobots]] | ||
| + | * [[Snake-Battle|Snake Battle]] | ||
| + | * [[ARobots]] | ||
| + | * [[AT-Robots]] | ||
| + | * [[B-A-T-II-The-Koshan-Conspiracy|B.A.T. II – The Koshan Conspiracy]] | ||
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| + | '''1993''' | ||
| + | * [[CoreLife]] | ||
| + | * [[Combat-Zone|Combat Zone]] | ||
| + | * [[Robosport]] | ||
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| + | '''1994''' | ||
| + | * [[TclRobots]] | ||
| + | * [[CppRobots|C++Robots]] | ||
| + | * [[RoboRally]] | ||
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| + | '''1995''' | ||
| + | * [[Digital-warriors|Digital warriors]] | ||
| + | * [[A-Robots]] | ||
| + | * [[RARS]] | ||
| + | * [[Carnage Heart]] | ||
| + | * [[ToonTalk]] | ||
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| + | '''1996''' | ||
| + | * [[Biomass]] | ||
| + | * [[AI-Wars-The-Insect-Mind|A.I. Wars (The Insect Mind)]] | ||
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| + | '''1997''' | ||
| + | * [[Robots]] | ||
| + | * [[SRobots]] | ||
| + | * [[TORCS]] | ||
| + | * [[StarshipSoccer]] | ||
| + | * [[War of Robot Worms]] | ||
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| + | '''1998''' | ||
| + | * [[Robot-Warfare-1|Robot Warfare 1]] | ||
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| + | '''1999''' | ||
| + | * [[Marionette Handler]] | ||
| + | * [[AI-Fleet-Commander|AI Fleet Commander]] | ||
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| + | '''2000''' | ||
| + | * [[Marionette Handler|Marionette Handler 2]] | ||
| + | * [[ARobots]] | ||
| + | * [[DroidBattles|BattleBots]] | ||
| + | * [[MindRover]] | ||
| + | * [[Grobots]] | ||
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Revision as of 23:38, 15 May 2019
Welcome to the Programming Games Wiki, a community site for programming game addicts. In a programming game players write programs to compete against each other. Feel free to add anything on-topic or just chat about the games on the discussion pages.
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