Software:Round the Horn (video game)

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Round the Horn
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Publisher(s)The Software Exchange
Designer(s)George Blank
Platform(s)TRS-80
Release1979

Round the Horn (stylized with a leading apostrophe as 'Round the Horn)[1] is a 1979 video game written by Reverend George Blank and published by The Software Exchange for the TRS-80. Written in BASIC, it was originally a type-in program—and the cover feature—in the January 1979 issue of SoftSide.[1]

Contents

Round the Horn is a game in which each player pilots a clipper ship from New York City, around South America, to San Francisco in the shortest time.[2]

Reception

Joseph Suchar reviewed Round the Horn in The Space Gamer No. 37.[2] Suchar commented that "Round the Horn is a challenging game which is in between all of those economic games and the simplistic arcade games. I highly recommend it."[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Blank, George (January 1979). "Around the Horn". SoftSide (4): 8. https://archive.org/details/softside-magazine-04/page/n7. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Suchar, Joseph (March 1981). "Capsule Reviews". The Space Gamer (Steve Jackson Games) (37): 27–28. 

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